Re: Scripting language for DBAs

> I guess the IT community has never learned their lessons... there are
> lots of languages out there, scripting, 3GL, 4GL, OO, blah, blah,
> blah. Right now, everone is SOOO enamored with JAVA (piece-o-crap)

_That statement_ is crap. If Java would actually be that bad usage would be far less than it actually is.
I do agree though that people should think for themselves and not follow all the published fashions. Ironically in that context your statement just constitutes another published piece of advice which begs to be followed thoughtlessly.

> and it's OO abilities. There are things I have done in C that made
> JAVA look like "B". I once took a JAVA app that just created a CSV
> output stream that was fed into SQLLoader and re-wrote it in C. The
> JAVA version could only get up to about 60K records/second ingested
> into the database. My "C" program did>1.8M records/sec. The original
> was Perl/MySQL - it did approximately 20K/min. (yes... per minute).

Well, you can create such examples at will - they prove nothing: without any details they are worthless. We know nothing about your Java program and JVM used so nobody can judge whether you used the tool properly. For _any_ tool it takes time to master it and part of the equation is not only the tool itself but also the environment (i.e. people and their skills) in which it is used.

> QUIT THINKING YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE BEST TOOL AND TEST TO MAKE SURE
> YOU ARE USING THE BEST TOOL FOR THE JOB - REGARDLESS OF WHAT IS
> "COOL".
+1

Cheers

        robert Received on Sun Apr 15 2012 - 06:48:13 CDT