Perl for Oracle DBAs

Andy Duncan

ISBN 10: 0596002106 / ISBN 13: 9780596002107

Verlag: O?Reilly Media, 2002

Beschreibung

Describes what database administrators need to know about Perl and explains how they can use this popular open source language to manage, monitor and tune their Oracle databases. Num Pages: 622 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: UNSB. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 177 x 35. Weight in Grams: 986. . 2002. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9780596002107

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Perl for Oracle DBAs
• Verlag: O?Reilly Media
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0596002106
• ISBN-13: 9780596002107
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

Perl is a very powerful tool for Oracle database administrators, but too few DBAs realize how helpful Perl can be in managing, monitoring, and tuning Oracle databases. Whether you're responsible for Oracle9i, Oracle8i, or earlier databases, you'll find Perl an invaluable addition to your database administration arsenal. You don't need to be a Perl expert to use the excellent applications and scripts described in Perl for Oracle DBAs. The book explains what you need to know about Perl, provides a wealth of ready-to-use scripts developed especially for Oracle DBAs, and suggests many resources for further exploration. The book covers:

• The Perl language -- an introduction to Perl, its rich history and culture, and its extensive text processing and data transformation capabilities.
• The Perl/Oracle architecture -- Detailed information about Perl DBI, DBD:: Oracle, the Oracle Call Interface (OCI), Oracle:: OCI, extproc_perl, and mod_perl, the modules that allow Perl programs to communicate with Oracle databases.
• Perl applications for Oracle DBAs -- Profiles of the best Perl open source applications available for use and customization by Oracle DBAs: Perl/Tk, OraExplain, StatsView, Orac, DDL:: Oracle, SchemaDiff, Senora, DBD:: Chart, SchemaView-Plus, Oracletool, Karma, Embperl, and Mason.
• The Perl Database Administration (PDBA) Toolkit -- a comprehensive suite of specialized, ready-to-use scripts designed to help Oracle DBAs perform both routine and special-purpose administrative tasks: monitoring the Oracle alert log and databases, creating and managing Oracle user accounts, maintaining indexes and extents, extracting DDL and data, troubleshooting and tuning database problems, and much more.

The book also explains how Oracle DBAs and developers can extend the toolkit and solve their own database administration problems using Perl.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andy Duncan is a psychology graduate and inveterate software dabbler who lives in Oxfordshire, England. He was the initial author of the Orac open source tool for Oracle database administration, development, and tuning. After a spell with Sun Microsystems in the late 1990s, working on Java-based software delivery systems, Andy began a period with Oracle Corporation in 1998 as an Oracle DBA contractor, at their central EMEA Data Centre in the U.K. He remained there as a senior DBA through the January 2000 hurdle; he then returned to Sun as a Perl and Java web consultant, moving away from database administration and back into full-time software development. He now combines various Internet projects for different clients with leading commercial Perl training courses for Learning Tree. He can be reached at andy_j_duncan@yahoo.com.