Re: RE: Dba tools on NT

As with any language, it's assumed that the developer will attempt to learn the language. :)

This is pretty simply stuff, and very readable to folks with smattering of Perl knowledge.

Jared

On Wednesday 14 August 2002 20:38, Grabowy, Chris wrote:
> How many developers can maintain that "cryptic" Perl code?
>
> Come over to the light...don't be afraid.
>
> Chris
>
> PS. 20 alpha characters...and about 25 special characters in that bit of
> code.....hmmmmm, not going to say anything about that.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Cc: Grabowy, Chris
> Sent: 8/14/2002 2:03 PM
>
> How many of those "non-cryptic" languages can dump a table
> to a CSV file in 2 lines of (readable ) code?
>
> while ( my $ary = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref ) {
> print q{"} . join(q{","},@{$ary}) . qq{"\n};
> }
>
> Come over to the dark side Chris. ;)
>
> Jared
>
>
>
>
>
> "Grabowy, Chris" <cgrabowy_at_fcg.com>
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> 08/14/2002 07:28 AM
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> Spaghetti code is easy to write...just throw some GOTOs in there.
>
> I just have some issues with a language that has more special characters
>
> in
> it then alpha characters.
>
> Sigh. I miss the good ole days, COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, and even a
> little
> bit of BASIC...I guess that's why I enjoy PL/SQL.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 5:32 PM
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>
> I'll agree with Jared. Given any programming or scripting language and
> there's
> some duhveloper out there who can make a completely obfuscated mess out
> of
> it.
> I was once told that it was impossible under Ada, boy did that ever get
> retracted by the author in a hurry!!
>
> Dick Goulet
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> Author: "Grabowy; Chris" <cgrabowy_at_fcg.com>
> Date: 8/13/2002 2:06 PM
>
> DOH!!!! Ouch...(limping along)...come on now. Perl has won "awards"
> for
> it's "readability" and "maintainability". I'm not slamming Perl, it has
> saved my behind on W2K platforms, which has no real scripting language.
> And
> I did advance order a copy of your book. Not that I want to be a
> Duhveloper...
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 4:42 PM
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> Cc: Grabowy, Chris
>
> > And it's difficult to write, looks like scrambled eggs when your done,
>
> and
>
> > impossible to maintain...
>
> Of course, you can say this about any programming or scripting language.
>
> It all depends on the ability of the programmer.
>
> Jared
>
>
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> "Grabowy, Chris" <cgrabowy_at_fcg.com>
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> And it's difficult to write, looks like scrambled eggs when your done,
> and
> impossible to maintain...
>
> On the other hand, you could write the entire Windows XP operating
> system
> in
> one line of Perl...including Internet Explorer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> Without a doubt - perl - get it free from www.activestate.com. Why use
> it?
> Well, it is so flexible compared to other NT/DOS scripting tools you'll
> wonder why you never had it before! It's also portable meaning all those
> scripts you write should work on multi platforms with just a little
> tweak!
>
> Lewis Bishop
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> Hello all
>
> We are looking on programming and scripting tools
> for DBA team on NT.
>
> Can you, oracle DBA's on NT, tell me off the list
> what tools you are using for these functions
> and, if you be so kind, why you choose them.
>
> TIA
>
> Yechiel Adar
> Mehish

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