Christopher wrote:
>
> My company is migrating some of our databases to Oracle, and I am
> teaching myself a little on the side in anticipation of this
> (currently I use perl and MySQL or PostgreSQL). After browsing
> through the current books out there, I notice that there aren't many
> books on pl/sql and furthermore, there are even fewer published in the
> past few years. Oracle Press' and OReilly's most recent contributions
> in pl/sql are both about 4 years old.
>
> I was wondering if this is because pl/sql is being deprecated in favor
> of other development tools (a la Crystal Reports, etc. -- which I know
> nothing about)?
>
> If anyone has insight into whether pl/sql is worth learning or if it
> would be better to look into something else, I'd appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
If you want to anything with stored procs and triggers - yes. Even
though Oracle is pushing Java, Java performance still sucks! PL/SQL is
much faster, and easier to learn (IMHO).
PL/SQL is not a reporting tool (a la Crystal Reports). CR is something
entirely different, as is Forms, and Reports from Oracle.
--
Ron Reidy
Oracle DBA
Reidy Consulting, L.L.C.
Received on Wed Oct 17 2001 - 17:24:09 CDT
