DBI uses the same Oracle OCI libraries as a C program would use. I'm a much
better Perl coder than C.
-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Russell Crandall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:24 AM
To: Marcotullio, Angelo
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Data Extract
For a half a billion rows, I would seriously consider coding this in C
using whatever Oracle libraries are available for accessing the API. That
would probably be your best choice in terms of having speedy code. You
may also be able to do a large portion of your work in a stored procedure
as well.
Perl is awesome and the DBI is great... but for 500,000,000 rows of data
it may not be the best alternative depending on your speed requirements.
--Curt
