New Zealand Oracle Users Group
Perl - A DBA and Developers Best (Forgotten) Friend. A Beginners Guide to Perl
This paper re-introduces Perl as a language of choice for many solutions for DBA's and developers. Discover what makes Perl so successful and why it is so versatile. Perl may not be in the lime light as other languages, but it truly is a remarkable language for development and is still very current with ongoing development. Companies such as Oracle and VMware use it as part of their latest software releases.
Discover what makes Perl so successful and why it is so versatile. Perl can automate all those manual daily tasks and is truly platform independent so that scripts can now run on Linux, Unix and Windows.
There are many DBA's and Developers who would like to know Perl but do not know where to start. If you are a Perl beginner or if you have used Perl in the past, this presentation will give you a solid introduction to the language fundamentals plus some best practices, so that you have the building blocks to start writing scripts in Perl. At the end there is a homework assignment to ensure there is motivation to begin learning Perl.
Agenda:
- What makes Perl so great
- What can I use Perl for
- What not to use Perl for
- CPAN, what is it and how can I use it
- Perl language overview
- Making Perl portable
- Perl and Oracle
- Best way to learn Perl
- Small Perl project to take away
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 Visser, Arjen.ppt | 1.17 MB |
Arjen Visser is the founder and Technical Director of Avisit Solutions Limited who are the creaters of Dbvisit. Dbvisit is an Oracle disaster recovery
software product which is being used in 33 countries worldwide. He has over 20 years of database experience in the IT industry with 16 years Oracle
experience. His technical expertise and IT knowledge covers a broad range of industries and areas. He has been a developer, data warehouse consultant,
technical project manager and Oracle DBA. He has presented at Oracle Open World 2009 and at the Chilean Oracle Users Group in 2009 and the New Zealand Oracle Users Group in 2008.