All the books that were mentioned before are excellent books. Another = good book I like is the "Perl Cookbook". I frequently browse through it = to find commonly used codes. I use perl with DBI at work too. It is very powerful and easy to use = too. I remembered there was another way to connect to Oracle without = using DBI or oraperl. The author said it offered comparable = performances to DBI and allow "database independence". I think you had = to create an internal mapping of tables within the program. So if you = ever had to restructure the tables, you don't need to change the SQL. = (Sorry, my memory is kind of shot.) - David Lee -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:19 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Perl Book Recommendations No RTFM's here. The question is not stupid, and there aren't many = manuals=20 around. Yes, DBI is still the best way to do it. Drivers are stable and = work really, really well. The latest version does differ from the book in = that it returns new hash reference each time it's called and that there is new = DBD::Oracle field called: ora_check_sql, but that's about it. If I wanted to throw a = RTFM at you, I wouldn't bother giving you the whole literature list. A long, = long time ago, in a version far, far away, there used to be something called oraperl, = which was using routines like &ora_login (at those ancient times, routines = were called with the "&" prefix) but nobody is using it any more. Even I have = converted all my scripts to perl5 some 4 years ago and I'd have to look really hard to = find oraperl manuals now. I don't see any other purpose to those old manuals now but = to torture=20 somebody into submission. That means that Jared might still have them = (wicked grin). On 04/01/2004 09:46:45 PM, Larry Elkins wrote: > Mladen, >=20 > Thanks for the recommendations. And of course I'm aware of the Jared = and > Duncan book ;-) Your comments about DBI being a little old, is DBI = still the > way to interface with Oracle (and other databases)? Or has something = else > come into play? Yes, I will be googling for that answer as soon as I = send > this so don't send some stinking rtfm or "google it up" answer ;-) = Sometimes > it is useful to get the opinion of people you trust as opposed to = reading > just a lot of junk on the internet. --=20 Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------