No RTFM's here. The question is not stupid, and there aren't many manuals
around. Yes, DBI is still the best way to do it. Drivers are stable and work
really, really well. The latest version does differ from the book in that it
returns new hash reference each time it's called and that there is new DBD::Oracle
field called: ora_check_sql, but that's about it. If I wanted to throw a RTFM at
you, I wouldn't bother giving you the whole literature list. A long, long time ago,
in a version far, far away, there used to be something called oraperl, which
was using routines like &ora_login (at those ancient times, routines were called
with the "&" prefix) but nobody is using it any more. Even I have converted all
my scripts to perl5 some 4 years ago and I'd have to look really hard to find oraperl
manuals now. I don't see any other purpose to those old manuals now but to torture
somebody into submission. That means that Jared might still have them (wicked grin).
On 04/01/2004 09:46:45 PM, Larry Elkins wrote:
> Mladen,
>
> Thanks for the recommendations. And of course I'm aware of the Jared and
> Duncan book ;-) Your comments about DBI being a little old, is DBI still the
> way to interface with Oracle (and other databases)? Or has something else
> come into play? Yes, I will be googling for that answer as soon as I send
> this so don't send some stinking rtfm or "google it up" answer ;-) Sometimes
> it is useful to get the opinion of people you trust as opposed to reading
> just a lot of junk on the internet.
--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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