Re: DBI Style Inquiry

Generally, I do a my ($this, $that, $foo, $bar) = @_; at the start of my subs, rather than to access the @_ array directly. In case we’re talking about a method — where Perl will put the object as the first argument — it would go like this:

sub foo_method {
  my $self = shift;
  my ($this_arg, $that_arg, $whatever) = @_;
  
  ...;
}
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Another thing about DBI, I almost never use fetchrow_array anymore, but much more commonly use fetchrow_hashref which will allow you to refer to the returned columns by their names. Make sure to alias the columns with the SQL AS column_name phrase though.

Others have touched some other issues already, so I won’t repeat those.

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Re^2: DBI Style Inquiry by Tux (Canon) on Jun 27, 2013 at 12:08 UTC
But `fetchrow_hashref` is much slower than the other fetch methods. It doesn't really matter if you fetch just a single row, but when traversing thousands of records, you will notice. For speed use `bind_columns` (the last example of that section shows how to get the best of both worlds). Here are some (older) speed compares for different database types: PostgreSQL MySQL Oracle Unify Overview of all Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: DBI Style Inquiry by Ralesk (Pilgrim) on Jun 27, 2013 at 12:20 UTC
Nice comparison. Would have probably been more interesting to see a graph that isn’t anchored on hashref = 100% though.	[reply]
Re^3: DBI Style Inquiry by erix (Prior) on Jun 28, 2013 at 12:14 UTC
I am surprised by the difference (even if it's small) between fetch and fetchrow_arrayref (your BC and DBC), as DBI docs say: `"fetchrow_arrayref" $ary_ref = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref; $ary_ref = $sth->fetch; # alias` [download] Or is the essential difference something else? (Also, it would be interesting to have the DBMS version-numbers on those pages; it does say 2006, that's a long time ago. I would say that (arguably, no doubt) PostgreSQL has advanced more than the others in performance in this particular period)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: DBI Style Inquiry by Tux (Canon) on Jun 28, 2013 at 12:42 UTC
The difference between BC and DBC is the method-call overhead. If you really want to squeze out nonoseconds per call, it matters. It is not something I would propagate in use though: `Create table 5000 x 12 Dbindcol 660153.156 recs/sec 4.8 x faster DBC bindcol 633472.697 recs/sec 4.6 x faster BC Darrayref 563380.282 recs/sec 4.1 x faster DAR arrayref 525486.075 recs/sec 3.8 x faster AR array 227086.929 recs/sec 1.7 x faster A hashref 136836.344 recs/sec HR` [download] Read more... (2 kB) Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn	[reply] [d/l] [select]