Re: Newbie: couple of questions?

Do you have a site for me where I can find information about linking a database with perl?

"andrew_webby at hotmail" <spam_at_no.thanks.com> wrote in message news:985620628.22844.0.nnrp-07.c30bdde2_at_news.demon.co.uk...
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> "Rutger" <xyz.miklo_22_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running oracle 7.3.4 on hp-ux 11.00, I know version 7 of oracle is
> > really old but I have no choice (It's a project for school, only this is
> > what they got). I have to make a database that contains information
 about
> > 100 personal computers (ip-adres, configuration, diskusage, installed
> > software, troubleshouting, etc, etc...). This database will be linked to
> > webpage (running on the same hp-ux server) so they can
 use/control/manage
 it
> > by intranet using their hp terminals. The tools I'm using are Oracle
> > Designer 6i and Oracle Forms & Reports 6i both under windows NT, there
 were
> > no hp-ux versions.
> >
> > the (maybe stupid) questions:
> >
> >
> > -How big should I make the tablespace?
>
> Depends. How much data do you anticipate putting in it? There are
> table-sizing guidelines in the Oracle documentation. Depends on the usage
> you anticiapte the database will get, lots of things really.
>
> > -Where do I start, first make the form under windows NT and run it under
> > hp-ux and then link it to a webpage? if so, how do I run the form on
 hp-ux?
> > How do I link the database to a webpage?
>
> Given that you appear to be wanting to do as much of this as possibly over
> the web, why not use an HTML interface (ie. forget Designer/Forms/Reports
> etc) to populate/query the database, driven by something like Perl? It
 seems
> like a bit of a sledgehammer/nut interface as it is...
>
> Also, you'll no doubt want to automatically update disk usage stats etc,
 so
> this is another reason why Perl (and the whole command-line ethos) should
 be
> embraced at the design stage. IMHO.
>
> > Thanx anyway
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Rutger
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 26 2001 - 12:50:04 CST