Actually that does seem a silly question in retrospect if talking about DBMS. And you're somewhat correct in assuming most of my Perl/database work has been with flat files, but I have done quite a bit of work with pure MS Access (regrettably). I was thinking of cases like Access where you can do what's necessary via ODBC/DBI without needing MS Access installed (provided your database file is already created).

Thanks for the links.

--Jim