RE: PERL?

I've written one shell script using the coprocess. I don't like using it. But that's just me.

I think one way of describing ksh (for the male readers out there, anyway) is that ksh is like the "legally blonde" girlfriend: There are times when you wish there was more intelligence there. But she has enough features to satisfy; and she's so easy, you just going back to her.

> -----Original Message-----
>
> I don't think any UNIX shell has some package or module
> written for any
> database. So the only way to talk to Oracle is using shell as
> a wrapper around
> sqlplus (or any application you developed). In sqlplus, you
> can use bind
> variables easily. In this sense, we can say shell does allow
> you to use bind
> variables.
>
> Speaking of Perl versus shell, Perl may still be quite
> primitive in supporting
> two-way communication with an external program e.g. sqlplus.
> (I have an example
> at
> www.stormloader.com/yonghuang/computer/OracleAndPerl.html#2way
> tosqlplus
> using IPC::Open2). But I think a KornShell coprocess (not a
> here document) does
> it nicely, i.e. piping a SQL command in and reading the
> result back, piping
> another command in, reading again, without exiting your
> sqlplus session. If you
> use Perl DBI (or the old OraPerl), Jared may know this but
> I'm not sure if you
> can send any arbitary SQL command such as explain plan,
> shutdown... and read
> its output.
>
> Yong Huang
>
> > One BIG advantage of Perl is DBI. Via shell you can't use
> bind variables
> > which sometimes come in handy. An admin dweeb here developed a
>
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