Re: pl/sql

Rob Zwartjes wrote:
>
> Hello Guru's,
>
> I have written a program in Perl for retrieving data from a oracle database.
> But it has come to a point that it is very time consuming before I get some
> answers. Especially when it comes to several hunderd items. I thought when I
> did this with pl/sql times might be shorter. So I got the pl/sql.pdf from the
> internet and start reading. I was impressed by the possibility's wich were
> available. The only thing I missed was something like getchar or getstring.
> Via dbms_output.put_line I get things on screen. But how do I get something
> from the keyboard.
>
> Thanks in advance for your time,
> Rob

If you are going to use PL/SQL you might want to consider writing a series of stored procedures and then use an OS-based language (C, VB, etc) to do the work of I/O and let Oracle PL/SQL handle the part of database access. Received on Mon Jan 08 2001 - 07:34:24 CST