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Perl Books

Perl for Oracle DBAs

Format: Paperback
Author: Andy Duncan
ReleaseDate: 15 August, 2002
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:

Outstanding Coverage

The examples are especially helpful and the authors take great care to explain the issues in Plain English. These authors have taken two somewhat diverse topics and combined them into an easy-to-read and cohesive book.

Overall, a highly recommended book.

Great book about Oracle DBA utilities written in Perl
The whole book is devoted to describe a lot of free DBA utilities written in this language, and it doesn't give you any roboust help to build your own Oracle-Perl scripts. This is NOT a book for learning Perl if you're a DBA. There's a very little (about 40 pages) APPENDIX devoted to look at the language grammar and programming issues. The only chapter that deserve the only star I give for this book is CHP7 - OCI Calls with Oracle::OCI. But, is this a book written for DBA's or developers?
If someone publish a book saying "UNIX Korn shell scripts for Oracle DBA's", what do I expect? Simply! learn about UNIX Korn shell and how to write DBA scripts for my Oracle system. But if the book talks about utilities written for Oracle in Korn shell scripts, then, clearly it fails its purpose.
Maybe those tools described can be useful for DBA tasks, specially because they're free. . . the bottom line is that this book doesn't teach you how to programm in Perl. Get something else, devoted just to Perl programming, like "Perl 6 Essentials" from Allison Randal.

AS FINE AS A PEARL COULD BE
This 600-plus paged volume was designed to be a reliable friend of any administrator, whose responsibilities include the oiling of Oracle database machinery. "Perl for Oracle DBAs" is indeed a real pearl.
The book, which comes with a toolkit package that contains more than a hundred ready-to-use programs, bared all the mysteries that surround Oracle/Perl software: including Oracle Call Interface (OCI), Perl DataBase Interface (DBI), as well as all the other modules that commune with both software.
This book runs as smoothly as any pearl could run.