Description: This is a good DBI reference for experienced perl programmers. The authors give you a good road map in the introduction so that you can find what you need to accomplish your task. I needed to interface to an existing database so I skipped chapter 2 on alternative persistent storage mechanisms. Having prior experience with SQL, I also skipped chapter 3. Chapters 4-6 are where the majority of people are going to find useful information. There you will find good explanations on connecting to databases, executing SQL statements, and some advanced features such as binding variables. The authors give a good treatment of the various ways to execute queries with performance tradeoffs. Chapter 7 is only useful if you are working on a Windows platform. My database is on Solaris so this wasn't something that I needed. As I said, though, what's there is good, but I there is definitely something missing. I needed to be able to call Oracle stored procedures as well as executing simple SQL queries ..
ISBN:
1565926994
Release Date:
February, 2000
List Price:
$24.47
Author:
Alligator Descartes, Tim Bunce
Publisher:
O'Reilly & Associates
Last Updated:
06/26/2003
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