From: gogala.mladen@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 16:47:31 +0000, John D Groenveld wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > Mladen Gogala   wrote:   
   >>Jared Still and Andy Duncan. Be aware that the administrators of the   
   >>most production databases will prevent you from embedding Perl or Python   
   >>into Oracle database and will bitterly fight any attempt to do so, with   
   >>good arguments. Allowing Perl or Python scripts in the database opens a   
   >>whole can of security worms. I have been an Oracle DBA for around a   
   >>quarter of a century and despite my fondness for Perl, I have never   
   >>allowed it to be used from the database. The problem is that Perl allows   
   >>too much and can trivially be used to compromise database security.   
   >   
   > Just poll the database for new PDFs to spew out over email to assuage   
   > the risk-averse DBAs.   
      
   Of course DBA personnel is risk-averse. DBA is tasked with protecting the   
   data and the database security. Their heads are the first on the chopping   
   block when there is an intrusion and data theft. In addition to that,   
   they do not own the data. No DBA has the right to risk exposing my SSN,   
   bank account, drivers license or any other piece of private information.   
   Many years ago, I exposed a really serious flaw of Oracle 10G and   
   external procedures and I took a lot of flak for it, and rightfully so.   
   I had no right to provide a recipe for stealing other people's data.   
      
   >   
   > Keep the interprocess asynchronous option in your back pocket for when   
   > Larry buys your option pack.   
      
   What is this supposed to mean? And what does Larry have to do with the   
   whole stuff?   
      
   >   
   > ISTR that's how Oracle's text search option came to be.   
   > John groenveld@acm.org   
      
   Oracle text search was included into database for business reasons. If   
   there are documents in the database, there is a need to look for specific   
   terms. Regular expressions will not be of much use here. There are many   
   other popular text search engines, besides Oracle's, like Lucene, Sphinx,   
   Xapian or Elasticsearh. Other databases have text search engines too.   
   Presumably, they were not all bought by Larry?   
      
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