David writes: > Something "pro" for perl that hasn't been mentioned directly (as a must for > DBAs) is efficiency for row processing. I especially like the "sysseek" implementation that I use in my log checker that quickly skips over the start of the file that I don't want to process. And my perl script needed two lines changed and one "if" block to handle running properly on Windows from being developed solely on Unix. I don't have much python to compare to perl, but Gentoo's Portage package (in python) has the earmarks of being inefficient as CPU and disk both go full-tilt during management operations, especially if a large historical repository is maintained. If I get bored, I may have to convert my log checker to py someday... Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l