Interestingly enough guys. I recently attended an ESRI Interna. = conference. ESRI is in the lead for GIS systems and basically as a DBA = I need to be able to load shapefiles, make transformations, etc. So I = quickly realized that due to the nature of the ESRI products it was much = easier and much safer to work over their framework. In fact, if you try = to do things in the database it can break it. That is due to the = catalogs and schema that ESRI maintains to object-orient the geographic = database. =20 The next question was - what was the best way to do my automation - = well, with the ESRI tools you can create a model and generate a script. = The choices are VB or Phython. So now I have 2 reasons to use Phython. -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Molinaro [mailto:amolinaro@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:23 AM To: Mladen.Gogala@xxxxxxxx; Stankus, Paula G; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: 10Gb experience Try python for a week then tell me what you think. Perl db access is more sophisticated than python, but as a language, dare I say it.... Python rulez! - a -----Original Message----- From: Gogala, Mladen [mailto:Mladen.Gogala@xxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:18 AM To: 'Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: 10Gb experience Paula, you should abandon your Korn shell script in favor of perl/DBI scripts=20 regardless of the platform. Perl rulez! -- Mladen Gogala A & E TV Network Ext. 1216 > console. Is =3D there any need for my korn shell scripts or > should I abandon and =3D wholeheartedly embrace the GUI? I=20 > suspect it is somewhere in-between. =3D I was wondering what=20 > others have been experiencing regarding scripts =3D versus OEM=20 > and especially in 10Gb on Linux. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 10269745) is spam: Spam: = https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=3Ds&i=3D10269745&m=3De147= d3dd3af2 Not spam: = https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=3Dn&i=3D10269745&m=3De147= d3dd3af2 Forget vote: = https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=3Df&i=3D10269745&m=3De147= d3dd3af2 ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l