[pjmlp]

Yes, since the early days of Java.

Microsoft has the same with .NET on SQL Server.

[dyu-]

Cool. They already have PL/SQL though, so I'm wondering what's their motivation to adding a full jvm inside their process.

[pjmlp]

Back in the .com days they also had Perl.

Is also a way to extend the SQL languages, and to bring existing code into the server side.