July 2000
Beginner
446 pages
12h 53m
English
Content preview from Perl for System Administration
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
References for More Information
SQL
| http://w3.one.net/~jhoffman/sqltut.htm contains James Hoffman’s excellent SQL tutorial; try the links at the end of the tutorial for more good SQL sites. |
DBI
| Advanced Perl Programming,by Sriram Srinivasan (O’Reilly, 1997). |
| http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/index.html is the official DBI home page; this should be your first stop. |
| Programming the Perl DBI, by Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce (O’Reilly, 2000). |
ODBC
| http://www.microsoft.com/odbc contains Microsoft’s ODBC information. You may also want to search for ODBC on the http://msdn.microsoft.com site, looking carefully at the library material on ODBC in the MDAC SDK. |
http://www.roth.net/perl/odbc/ is
the official Win32::ODBC home page.
|
Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard
Extensions, by Dave Roth (Macmillan Technical Publishing,
1999). By the author of Win32::ODBC, currently the
best reference for Win32 Perl module programming.
|
Other Topics
| http://sybooks.sybase.com is where Sybase puts its entire documentation set online with an easy to navigate and easy to search interface. This sometimes comes in handy not just for Sybase/MS-SQL related questions, but for general SQL questions as well. |
http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler/ is
the home page of Michael Peppler (author of
SybPerl and DBD::Sybase).
Contains some useful information not just on Sybase, but also on SQL
and database programming in general.
|
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.