Brian Peasland wrote:
> Even setting up an external table or creating a SQL*Loader control file
> can seem convoluted to the uninitiated.
>
Absolutely. But as a contractor DBA I have so often come across Easter
Egg-style O/S "hacks" left behind by since-departed administrators that
merely replicate functionality that can be provided by the RDBMS. In
my view it's better to allow the database to manipulate the data as
much as possible to avoid nasty surprises during upgrades or hardware
migration, for example.
Received on Thu Apr 27 2006 - 11:34:45 CDT
