Message-Id: <10530.109589@fatcity.com> From: "Ed Bittel" Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:26:31 -0700 Subject: Opinions needed. JAVA or Perl? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_021E_01BFD79E.DD9CAB20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The main reason I became a DBA is that I like to learn new things and = enjoy the challenge of keeping up with technology. Like you, I am = always striving to deepen my pool of Oracle knowledge. I also like to = maintain a broad and relatively shallow pool of other knowledge to try = to keep an edge in the job market and avoid getting burned out. =20 Since free time is a limited commodity, I'm trying to decide whether I = should concentrate on learning Perl or JAVA in my spare time. I realize = one's personal choice may depend largely on the needs of the shop you = work in and the type of DBA you are (i.e., application or production). = In my case, neither is currently used at my shop, so my main goal is to = improve my marketability as a DBA by developing complementary skills. = I know enough about Perl and JAVA to realize they aren't substitutes for = each other. Being a practical person, I'm leaning toward Perl as it = seems the more useful, but I keep seeing DBA positions listing JAVA as a = desired skill. Other than administering the JAVA environment in the new = version of Oracle, I don't understand why. I can't imagine many shops = are abandoning PL/SQL stored procedures and packages for JAVA. I'm hoping to gather some opinions from the list regarding which would = be a better complement to a DBA: JAVA or Perl. If you had to choose one = to learn, which would it be? Why? =20 ------=_NextPart_000_021E_01BFD79E.DD9CAB20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
The main reason I became a DBA is that I like to = learn new=20 things and enjoy the challenge of keeping up with technology.  Like = you, I=20 am always striving to deepen my pool of Oracle knowledge.  I also = like to=20 maintain a broad and relatively shallow pool of other knowledge to try = to keep=20 an edge in the job market and avoid getting burned out.  =
 
Since free time is a limited commodity, I'm trying = to decide=20 whether I should concentrate on learning Perl or JAVA in = my spare=20 time.  I realize one's personal choice = may depend largely=20 on the needs of the shop you work in and the type of DBA you = are=20 (i.e., application or production).  In my case, neither is = currently used=20 at my shop, so my main goal is to improve my marketability as a DBA = by=20 developing complementary skills.    =
 
I know enough about Perl and JAVA to = realize they aren't=20 substitutes for each other.  Being a practical person, I'm = leaning=20 toward Perl as it seems the more useful, but I keep seeing DBA positions = listing=20 JAVA as a desired skill.  Other than administering the JAVA=20 environment in the new version of Oracle, I don't understand why.  = I can't=20 imagine many shops are abandoning PL/SQL stored procedures and packages = for=20 JAVA.
 
I'm hoping to gather some opinions from the list = regarding=20 which would be a better complement to a DBA: JAVA or Perl.  = If you had to choose one to learn, which would it be?  = Why? =20
 
 
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