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.
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.