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+<H2>Afterword</H2>
+
+part of 
+<a
+href="index.html">SQL for Web Nerds</a>
+by <a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/">Philip Greenspun</a>
+
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr>
+
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+
+
+Congratulations: You've learned SQL.  You can tap into the power of the
+relational database management system for concurrency control and
+transaction management.  This power is useful for almost any activity in
+which computers are employed.
+
+<p>
+
+If you aren't already saddled with a job, I encourage you to think about
+building Web services for collaboration, which I think are the most
+valuable things that we nerds can give to society.  To that end, I wrote
+<cite>Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing</cite>, available at 
+<a href="/panda/">http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/</a> and more
+recently <cite>Software Engineering for Internet Applications</cite>, at 
+<a href="/seia/">http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/</a>
+
+<hr>
+
+<a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/"><address>philg@mit.edu</address></a>
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+<LINK REL=STYLESHEET HREF="/books/philg.css" TYPE="text/css">
+<TITLE>Appendix B: Getting Real Work Done with Oracle</title>
+</HEAD>
+<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">
+
+<table>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd3562/hoc-10.tcl"><img HEIGHT=198 WIDTH=132 src="http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd3562/hoc-10.1.jpg" ALT="Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998.  From the footbridge to Harvard Business School"></a>
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+<td>
+
+<H2>Appendix B: Getting Real Work Done with Oracle</H2>
+
+by <a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/">Philip Greenspun</a>, part of 
+<a
+href="index.html">SQL for Web Nerds</a>
+
+
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr>
+
+Consider John Q. Nerd with his bona fide SQL expertise and MIT PhD.  How
+much useful work can John get out of Oracle?  None.  John Q. Nerd only
+knows how to drive Oracle from SQL*Plus.  This appendix covers the
+little details such as getting data into or out of Oracle.  It is
+organized as an FAQ.
+
+<h3>How do I get data into Oracle?</h3>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>Answer 1:  Start up SQL*Plus.  Type really fast.
+
+<br>
+<br>
+
+<li>Answer 2:  If you need to load 1000+ rows per second, a fairly common
+requirement in the data warehousing world, read the Oracle8 Server
+Utilities, <a
+href="http://www.oradoc.com/keyword/sql_loader">SQL*Loader section</a>.
+
+<br>
+<br>
+
+<li>Answer 3:  If SQL*Loader makes you feel like ripping out what's left
+of your hair, go with Perl DBD/DBI (a module available from 
+<a href="http://www.cpan.org">http://www.cpan.org</a>; explanation 
+available in <a
+href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565922204/pgreenspun-20"><cite>Advanced
+Perl Programming</cite></a> (Srinivasan 1997; O'Reilly).
+
+<br>
+<br>
+
+
+<li>Answer 4: If your data are imprisoned in another RDBMS, consider
+using a fancy GUI tool such as Data Junction (<a
+href="http://www.datajunction.com">http://www.datajunction.com</a>).
+These are PC-based applications that open simultaneous connections to
+your Oracle database and some other RDBMS.  They can generally show
+you what's available in the other database and drag whatever you think
+necessary into Oracle.
+
+
+<br>
+<br>
+
+<li>Answer 5:  If your data are in another Oracle database, read up in
+the Oracle Server Utilities manual about
+<code>exp</code>
+and <code>imp</code></a>
+(<a
+href="http://www.oradoc.com/keyword/export_import">http://www.oradoc.com/keyword/export_import</a>).
+
+<br>
+<br>
+
+<li>Answer 6: If your data are coming in from an email message,
+configure your mailer to fork a Perl DBD/DBI script that will then parse
+out the content from the headers and other such crud, open up Oracle,
+and then send an insert statement.  Due to the fork and the opening of
+Oracle, this is 1/100th the efficiency of a Web script running in a
+threaded Web server with database connection pooling.  However, you
+probably won't be getting 40 email messages per second so it doesn't
+really matter.  The old open-source ArsDigita Community System includes
+a Perl script that you could use as a starting point.
+See <a
+href="/ancient-history/software/acs-3.4.10.tar.tgz">http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/software/acs-3.4.10.tar.tgz</a>
+for details.
+
+
+</ul>
+
+<h3>How do I get data out of Oracle?</h3>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>If you want to publish data on the Web, look at the approaches
+articulated in <cite>Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing</cite>, 
+Chapter 13 (<a href="/panda/databases-interfacing">http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/databases-interfacing</a>).
+
+<br>
+<br>
+
+<li>If you are sending data to another Oracle installation, use <code>exp</code>,
+documented in the Oracle8 Server Utilities manual,
+<a
+href="http://www.oradoc.com/keyword/export_import"><code>exp</code>
+and <code>imp</code> section</a>.
+
+
+</ul>
+
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+<TITLE>SQL for Web Nerds</TITLE>
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+
+
+<h2>SQL for Web Nerds</h2>
+
+by <a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/">Philip Greenspun</a>
+
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr>
+
+<a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd4229/alex-rope-13.4.jpg"><img hspace=5 vspace=5 align=right WIDTH=269 HEIGHT=268 src="http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd4229/alex-rope-13.2.jpg" ALT="Alex.  Harvard Yard 1998."></a>
+
+
+<blockquote>
+<i>
+This is a draft manuscript.  Comments (emailed to 
+<a href="mailto:philg@mit.edu">philg@mit.edu</a>) would be welcome.
+</i>
+</blockquote>
+
+<ol>
+<a href="preface.html">Preface</a><br><br>
+<li><a href="introduction.html">Introduction</a>
+<li><a href="data-modeling.html">Data modeling</a>
+<li><a href="queries.html">simple queries</a>: one table, one table with subquery, JOIN, JOIN with
+subquery, OUTER JOIN
+<li><a href="complex-queries.html">more complex queries</a>:  GROUP BY, aggregates, HAVING
+<li><a href="transactions.html">Transactions</a> (inserts and updates)
+<li><a href="triggers.html">triggers</a>
+<li><a href="views.html">views</a>
+<li><a href="style.html">style</a>
+<li><a href="procedural.html">escaping to the procedural world</a>:  PL/SQL and Java executing inside
+the Oracle server
+<li><a href="trees.html">trees</a>
+<li><a href="dates.html">handling dates in Oracle</a>
+<li><a href="limits.html">limits</a> in Oracle; how they will bite you and how to work around them 
+<li><a href="tuning.html">tuning</a>, what to do when your query runs
+too slowly
+
+<li><a href="data-warehousing.html">data warehousing</a>, what to do
+when your query doesn't answer your questions
+
+<li><a href="foreign-and-legacy-data.html">foreign and legacy data</a>,
+making foreign Web sites look like local SQL tables
+
+<li><a href="normalization">normalization</a> 
+
+
+<br><br>
+<a href="afterword.html">Afterword</a>
+
+<br><br>
+
+Appendix A:  <a href="your-own-rdbms.html">Setting up your own RDBMS</a>
+<br>
+Appendix B:  <a href="getting-real-work-done.html">Getting real work done
+with Oracle</a>
+
+</ol>
+
+More: 
+
+<ul>
+<li>the complete Oracle doc set is available online for registered (no
+charge) users, as a link from
+<href="http://www.oracle.com/">http://www.oracle.com/</a>; some
+particularly interesting books are the <cite>Application Developer's Guide</cite> and
+<cite>Concepts</cite>
+
+<li> <a
+href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072225211/pgreenspun-20"><cite>Oracle
+9i: The Complete Reference</cite></a>
+</ul>
+
+<hr>
+<a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/"><address>philg@mit.edu</address></a>
+
+
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