Anything stored is always easier to configure then anything external. It shouldn't be easier to use, though. And you should judge where dies it make sense. For reading a simple file 100000 times a day (document scanning application at my previous company), a properly written C program (using fork, readv and writev, without fscanf and fprintf bells and whistles) will outperform almost anything else. For taking to other applications, network communication and alike, Java is not significantly slower and is much easier to program. If you want a simple database script, PL/SQL is by far the best solution. And if your goal is to make me like you, use perl.
-- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ive just started digging into these. Im familiar with Java and C, though Im hardly an expert. It appears that java stored procedures are much easier to use and far more forgiving than C based external procedures. So then I started looking for functionality that external procedures have over java and I cant find any. Since I cant find any, I dont see any reason to spend time learning how to use them. so my question is, are there things you can do with external procedures that you cant do with java? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). Note: This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Wang Trading LLC and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Mladen Gogala INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
