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Title: Perl for Oracle DBAs by Andy Duncan, Jared Still ISBN: 0-596-00210-6 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Great book about Oracle DBA utilities written in Perl
Comment: This is NOT a book for learning Perl if you're a DBA. 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. 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: AS FINE AS A PEARL COULD BE
Comment: "Perl for Oracle DBAs" is indeed a real pearl. This 600-plus paged volume was designed to be a reliable friend of any administrator, whose responsibilities include the oiling of Oracle database machinery.
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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book for DBAs wanting to take advantage of perl
Comment: I've always loved perl and wrote a lot of utilities to monitor and manage databases when I worked as a full time DBA (using oraperl & perl4). However, over the years as my focus shifted to wider software architecture I found it difficult to keep up with new releases, modules and so forth. From time to time I would visit CPAN but the sheer volume of modules and the limited time I had was preventing me from taking full advantage of modern perl.
Jared and Andy's book neatly solved this problem. Within an hour of opening their book I had fully upgraded my perl and added heaps of fantastic utilities that I never even knew existed. Sometimes perl can be hard to install and configure but this book makes it a breeze.
This book is indispensable if you are trying to get started with perl - and every DBA should! If you are already a perl user I'm sure you'll learn about new features or find utilities that will repay the cost of the book many times over.
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Title: Optimizing Oracle Performance by Cary Millsap ISBN: 059600527X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Oracle9i RMAN Backup & Recovery by Robert G. Freeman, Matthew Hart ISBN: 0072226625 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 18 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Programming the Perl DBI by Alligator Descartes, Tim Bunce ISBN: 1565926994 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition by Steven Feuerstein ISBN: 0596003811 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 23 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Perl Cookbook, Second Edition by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington ISBN: 0596003137 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 21 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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