On Wednesday 24 May 2006 22:11, mark wrote: > ravi kongara wrote: > > But it is little surprising that dbi doesn't support executing sql files > > directly. > > What you are calling "sql file" is actually an *Oracle SQLPlus file*. > > Maybe DBD::Oracle could have a SQLPlus emulation mode, but even if > such a beast existed, it would certainly not be part of *DBI*. > > Mark
<rant mode="on"> What I find surprising is the amount of DBAs who, driven by standard Oracle tools' limitations, hear about this "powerful Perl/DBI thing", assuming that their Oracle/shell script skills will be enough to handle the migration, and then complaining and blaming DBI when something does not work the way they expected it work... *sigh* </rant>
