Re: Oraperl vs Perl

[Quoted] I suggest using DDI/DAD for Oracle. I used to use C with Oracle's PRO*C (Embedded SQL). It was terrible. Perl with DDI/DAD is great. It shortened our development cycle significantly.

Rob

Yong Huang wrote in message <357EB607.B7A01C92_at_shell.com>...
>I'm used to writing Perl code like this:
>#!.../perl
>open SQL, "| sqlplus usr/pasw";
>print SQL "spool myout\n";
>print SQL "select * from employee\n";
>print SQL "exit\n";
>I want to know whether this approach has some disadvantage compared to
>using OraPerl or any special database modules (maybe those DBI stuff). I
>don't have performance or any problems right now. But if there are Perl
>tools written just for databases, there must be something good about
>them. Thanks for advice.
Received on Thu Jun 11 1998 - 21:18:12 CEST