Re: OT: perl q

• "Koivu, Lisa" <lisa.koivu_at_efairfield.com>

> Good morning everyone,
>
> I apologize for the OT post.
>
> I was looking at the DBI. It suddenly occurred to me that I can only
> connect to sql*plus with this. I'm not minimizing it's usefulness, but I
> am wondering if I can use a perl script to fire off the rman backup, scan
> the log for errors, mail the log, etc. everything I used to do in ksh.
>
> Any examples of a "host" type command or something that may possibly meet
> my needs would be greatly appreciated and rewarded by a virtual monkey
> beer :)

You can either feed the stuff into sqlplus the same way you did in ksh (with reasonable variables and control structures added) or use dbi to feed the commands directly into the server.

You might want to check out the

    dbi-users_at_perl.org

mailing list or CPAN for working examples.

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