Reviews for Perl for Oracle DBAs

1. Applying Perl to real-world problems

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, September 12th, 2002

   Over time, as we develop systems, cut code, administer data bases and perform myriad other
   tasks, we tend to build up a 'kit bag' of useful tricks, code snippets and techniques.
   This book makes a welcome contribution with its many printed examples and pointers.

   Although, as the title suggests, this is aimed primarily at Oracle administrators, there is much here
   for those with more than a passing interest in the rich text-processing language that is Perl.
   With library modules available for Sysbase and MySQL for example, connections are a simple matter of
   appropriate API calls.

   Indeed, in the excellent appendices, there is a code example showing simultaneous connections
   to both an Oracle and a MySQL database and how to extract and process data between them
   using some embedded SQL. The ability yo do this without resorting to dump and re-loads using ASCII
   flat files was a small revelation.

   With its clear real-world approach and incisive, and often witty, explanations and observations,
   this book is not only a boon to data base administrators but can also be very useful
   to those who simply want to learn more about the power of Perl.