That's an over-simplistic and misleading answer. The above is a quote from the MariaDB website. But the OP is enquiring about MySQL. The MySQL website states:

27.9 MySQL Perl API

The Perl DBI module provides a generic interface for database access. You can write a DBI script that works with many different database engines without change. To use DBI with MySQL, install the following:

The DBI module.

The DBD::mysql module. This is the DataBase Driver (DBD) module for Perl.

Hope this helps!

DBD::mysql is *a* database driver for MySQL and MariaDB, but it has many maintenance issues and bugs and fundamentally broken Perl string handling. DBD::MariaDB is a fork that still supports both databases and fixes these issues, and should be used for all new projects. The MySQL website of course doesn't mention it because it's new.

> That's an over-simplistic and misleading answer. 

Appropriate to an over-simplistic and misleading question? 

Cheers Rolf
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