in reply to To DBI or not to DBI

DBI is the first and only choice for supporting multiple databases from Perl, and has eclipsed single-database drivers for nearly every database (with the exception of Sybase, I think). It is rock solid, extremely fast, well-documented, and regularly updated. I'm not sure what pages you were looking at that made you think it had not been updated since 2000. You should look at CPAN instead.

A dbm is an on-disk hash. It is a great way to store data that fits nicely into a hash, but that's all it is. It does not have anything to do with SQL or relational databases.

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Re: Re: To DBI or not to DBI
by rzward (Monk) on Jan 29, 2003 at 03:31 UTC
    Thank you for your help.

    I was looking at the FAQ page at http://dbi.perl.org/doc/faq.html, which was last updated in 2000 and then noticed that for the list of DBI drivers, the FAQ page references

    http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI

    which in turn references http://dbi.perl.org. So, I guess I got the impression the Web site was getting stale.

    Anyway, I'm reading the CPAN entry at

    http://search.cpan.org/author/TIMB/DBI-1.32/DBI.pm

    and getting the DBI book from the library.

    Thanks again.

    Richard

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