At 11:22 AM -0500 12/5/01, Lynn Cummings wrote:
> I have had a request for a PL/SQL course. Are there others among us who
>would take such a class? Please get back to me if this is something you
>are interested in taking. A description of what this class might be is below:
<soapbox>
In the words of the late Bill the Cat, "Acck pphhhhtt!"
Yes, PL/SQL is useful in the small confines of a strictly Oracle
universe, but we don't live in such a universe at UVM. I consider
PL/SQL an esoteric niche subject with limited applicability outside a
small and unfriendly domain of BANNER applications.
More utilitarian would be a general SQL course (as once taught by
Keith Kennedy), perhaps with extensions to SQL within the DBI
framework of perl or PHP. Such knowledge would enable the building of
a wide range of web-friendly (or even "command line") database
applications using either Oracle or mySQL or even (shudder) Microsoft
SQL-Server.
Note that the UVM web team has successful used such tools to construct
http://www.uvm.edu/catalogue/
Please also note that this is not an offer to teach such a course myself.
</soapbox>
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