Why Perl for databases?
 
 
- Ideally suited to data processing
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- parsing / cleansing / filtering / merging / generating / formatting / etc …
 
- Simple powerful and portable database interface
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- The DBI module and database driver mdules, including DBD::Oracle
 
- Applications
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- Data acquisition and reporting
- Data Migration
- Web Page creation
 
- Building sharper tools faster
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- The choice of many experienced developers
- Extensive module library - growing at an ever faster rate
- Many powerful add-on modules for databases and the DBI