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Applying Perl to real-world problems
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.
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