Why Perl for Databases?

• Ideally suited to data processing:

  • parsing, cleansing / filtering / merging and formatting

• Applications

  • Data Migration
  • Data acquisition and reporting
  • Web Page creation (static and dynamic)

• Perl lets you build sharper tools faster

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Commercial tools for these tend to lack the flexibility of Perl (in breadth and depth).

You can find yourself wasting time working around the limitations of blunt commercial tools.