Re: Programming languages that make DBA's lives easier

See, that depends on how big a shop you run. I have to pull duty as the sysadmin as well. If the installer does not work, a relink fails, etc, I can't call my unix guy and ask for it to be fixed. I have found many problems with the install programs as shipped by oracle, especially on Linux (all the way back to 8.0.5, iirc, up to and including 9iR2). Not all the problems can be fixed with knowledge of C, but if you know what the program is doing, or if you can slog your way through the makefile, you have a better chance of fixing it.

If you can't get oracle installed, then there isn't much need for a dba, now is there?

-Candi

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 12:59, Jared Still wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 February 2003 09:24, Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us wrote:
> > C
>
> Not much need for most DBA's to ever use C, though
> not a bad thing to know.
>
> Certainly doesn't belong at the top of the list for a DBA.
>
> Jraed
>
> > Shell Scripting
> > Perl
> > Pl/SQL - "not really a programming language"
> > Java
> >
> > Now, if the more developer-minded DBA's amongst us could rate them as %
> > important that would be cool!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 11:56 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > On top of learning Oracle, which programming languages would also benefit
> > some1 learning Oracle? Perl? Java? How would these languages be used?
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