Re: Perl and Databases

Hi there.

I don't have too much technical knowledge to talk about db's, but I can give you some feedback based on practical experience.

• mySQL - It's free, easy to use and very powerful and stable. Thousands accesses per day are smoothly supported. Never had any problems with it. It's one of my favorites. As good for beginners as for advanced developers.

• Oracle - A pretty known db, Oracle is expensive, but also very good for large applications. It's a bit complicated for beginners, but not too much. A good choice if you have money to invest on, and if your db is a pretty big one.

• MS Access - Well, I think Access is the worst choice of the three. I'm developing an app on it right now, and having some troubles. Access is not intended for big apps or for too much people accessing it simultaneously.

These three works perfectly with Perl, thanks to the marvelous DBI module.

BTW, your english is perfect.

Greetings from Brazil! : )

Er Galvão Abbott
a.k.a. Lobo, DaWolf
Webdeveloper

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Re: Re: Perl and Databases by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Mar 29, 2002 at 17:39 UTC
A caveat on 'works perfectly with Perl', MS Access will only work with Perl on Win32 via DBD::ODBC or Win32::ODBC - there is, as far as I know, no way to use Access databases on Unix - you can of course use DBD::Proxy to a small server proxy on a windows machine if you really must. /J\	[reply]