RE: Read data from a file

Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:

> To make things perfectly clear, this procedure was written while I was
> enjoying
> my 1st morning coffee and is not meant to be used without editting.
> It is just a
> template, not a finished script. If you are on a unix box, then this
> is just what
> you do. You write perl scripts which interact with the database.
> That's precisely
> what perl is for.

that is IF perl is installed on your unix box, and IF DBD:Oracle and DBI: are installed, and IF the SA lets you access perl to start with.;-)

otherwise you use shell scripts that you kick off yourself because you can't cron them.;-)

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