in reply to Re: Re: Re: To DBI or not to DBI
in thread To DBI or not to DBI

Wow, sorry - now, reading what your intent is I may stand corrected. Maybe SQLite does make sense.

That is quite a project you are undertaking! I'm sure you realize that there are enough differences between the databases to make your job a hard one. For example all(?) the databases handle these things differently:
* Date/Time handling * Sequences (unique identifiers)
Those are the 2 glaring ones off the top off my head, and I'm sure there are more. I try to stick with standard SQL, and try to stay away from things that each database does which are specific only to that database. But some things(like Date/Time, Sequences, etc.) you just have to deal with in each database. I haven't worked with triggers and constraints(and other stuff), so if you use those you may encounter issues there. Just thinking about how you would handle the differences in date/time handling makes my head hurt ;-)

Good luck with your project!

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: To DBI or not to DBI
by rzward (Monk) on Jan 29, 2003 at 17:44 UTC
    Thank you for your follow-up.

    Fortunately (for now anyway), the scripts needs very little from a database, so I won't initially encounter the many incompatibilities that I'm sure exist. Hopefully, I won't design myself into a corner that will cause a lot of rewriting later!

    Richard