Re: How important is Perl for a dba ???

From: Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:25:17 GMT
Message-ID: <3ad580a8.1713959@news-server>

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:21:17 +0000 (UTC), AMinocha_at_herold.com (Anurag Minocha) wrote:

>I was wondering how important it is for a DBA to =
>learn perl.

Darn these HTML posts...

Anyways:

Important? I don't think it's of capital importance. You can certainly be a dba and not use Perl.

Having said that, I find it invaluable for manipulating strings. Much easier than awk, even has a DBI interface (which I've never used).

I use it a lot to manipulate text files produced out of imports with show=y or indexfile=<fname>. It's also handy for doing repetitive text manipulations, whatever they may be (reports, SQL, etc).

Wouldn't stop me from being a dba if I didn't know how to use it, but it's a nice to have. And it runs on just about any system, including NT.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Thu Apr 12 2001 - 05:25:17 CDT