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Perl is a very powerful tool for Oracle database administrators, but too few DBAs realize how helpful Perl can be in managing, monitoring, and tuning Oracle9i, Oracle8i, and earlier databases. You don't need to be a Perl expert to reap the rewards of reading Perl for Oracle DBAs. The book explains what you need to know about Perl, profiles the best Perl open source applications available to DBAs, and provides the Perl DBA Toolkit, a comprehensive suite of ready-to-use scripts designed to ease the burden of Oracle database administration.
This is the first book to tie together the commercial world of Oracle and the free-wheeling world of open source software. It describes nearly 100 open source tools, from the widely applied (like Linux, Perl, and Apache) to the Oracle-specific (like Orasoft, Orac, OracleTool, and OraSnap). You'll learn where to find them, what their advantages are, and how to create and release new open source Oracle tools yourself.
In the tales gathered in An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected
Stories you will meet a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a
haunted Mohawk steelworker, a time-traveling prizefighter, a
yam-eating Zombie, and a child who loves a frizzled chicken-not to
mention Harry Houdini, Zora Neale Hurston, Sir Thomas More, and all
their fellow travelers riding the steamer-trunk imagination of a
unique twenty-first-century fabulist. From the Florida folktales of
the perennial prison escapee Daddy Mention and the dangerous
gator-man Uncle Monday that inspired "Daddy Mention and the Monday
Skull" (first published in Mojo: Conjure Stories, edited by Nalo
Hopkinson) to the imagined story of boxer and historical bit player
Jess Willard in World Fantasy Award winner "The Pottawatomie Giant"
(first published on SciFiction), or the Ozark UFO contactees in
Nebula Award winner "Close Encounters" to Flannery O'Connor's
childhood celebrity in Shirley Jackson Award finalist "Unique
Chicken Goes in Reverse" (first published in Eclipse) Duncan's
historical juxtapositions come alive on the page as if this
Southern storyteller was sitting on a rocking chair stretching the
truth out beside you. Duncan rounds out his explorations of the
nooks and crannies of history in two irresistible new stories, "Joe
Diabo's Farewell" - in which a gang of Native American ironworkers
in 1920s New York City go to a show - and the title story, "An
Agent of Utopia" - where he reveals what really (might have)
happened to Thomas More's head.
Discover Alabama's curious underside with this oddly entertaining
little guide! Travelers with a taste for the bizarre, tacky, and
hilarious can visit the Coon Dog Cemetery, learn about the
cattle-mutilation mystery, view the world's largest boll weevil,
and sip Kudzu Tea. Only a true Southerner could capture the essence
of these and other authentic Alabama phenomena, and Andy Duncan
does his home state proud.
Life thru a Lens was the first solo album by English pop singer
Robbie Williams after his former band Take That split. After trying
to find his own sound during a harrowing period for him, recordings
for the album began at London's Maison Rouge studios in March of
that year, shortly after his introduction to Guy Chambers. The
album was certified as 8x Platinum in the UK. The album reached the
number-one position on its 28th week inside the charts...
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