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Juan
I think every DBA should learn Perl. With just a few hours of reading, you can begin to create some impressive utilities.
I think it is also a good idea to learn some Java, since it is an important development tool, and DBAs need to have some familiarity with the development tools their developers are using. Communication with other people is always aided by as many common understandings as possible. We DBAs tend to gripe about developers that don't want to understand the database, well that also means that we DBAs need to understand the developers' world.
But while I see a lot of DBAs whipping up impressive utilities in Perl, and have done this myself, I haven't heard of a DBA using Java for that. Java is more of an industrial-strength tool designed to create large-scale applications. And besides the language itself, you need to get involved in auxiliary programs like IDEs, code repositories, web servers, application servers, etc. Most of the professional developers I know say it takes them about a year of training and programming to become halfway proficient in Java, which is similar to other languages I've learned in the past.
So I would say that you should learn some of both, especially if your organization uses Java, but as a DBA I would start with Perl.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Juan Cachito Reyes
Pacheco
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 9:04 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Java vs. Perl
Hi, please there is another reason than simple know perl, to use perl
instead of Java.
I always heard Java had more advantages than perl, including the fact that
Oracle include it in the database.
Now you are talking as much about perl, and I am thinking to study java, I
am asking which is
best. for most purpouses.
Thanks :)
Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco
OCP
Database 9.2 Standard Edition
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