Re: perl and dba
- From: Ryan January <rjjanuary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:13:45 -0600
I'd agree that being familiar with a higher level language is very
useful. Their utility is generally broad, and publicly available add in
modules can be found to perform almost any task.
I feel that everyone in this profession (IT in general) is standing on
the shoulders of giants. With that mindset I'm one who doesn't like
revisiting an issue unless there's sufficient reason to do so. Writing
equivalent functionality to what's already available in modules would
take a significant chunk of time.
Python, numpy, matplotlib, and cx_oracle have become "must haves" on my
laptop. At this point I've at least broken even on the amount of time
spent learning python vs the time I've saved using it and it's modules.
I respect perl as a language, but it's not for me. At times I found it
difficult to maintain scripts if I didn't revisit them regularly. As a
crutch I ended up with a gratuitous amount of in line comments. I don't
seem to have the same issue with python.
On 02/08/2013 02:47 PM, Hans Forbrich wrote:
> On 08/02/2013 11:09 AM, Jared Still wrote:
>
>> Shell is fine for relatively simple Oracle stuff, that is, where work is
>> done in the database.
>> ...
>> If any complex work is required that cannot easily be satisfied with
>> PL/SQL, Perl is my tool of choice.
>>
> Oracle seems to agree with you:
>
> [ls | dir] $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/admin/scripts
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