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What's so hard about DBI that people feel they must develop abstractions? To me, they just make tracking down problems that much harder, which is never a good thing.

rdfield

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Re^2: DBX offers simplified access to the DBI
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Feb 19, 2003 at 11:40 UTC

    I agree completely.

    chromatic wrote a nice article in defense of DBI a while ago for Perl.com, which is a useful starting point for any kind of abstraction.

    Then you take another step and do to SQL in Perl what you'd do to HTML in Perl: push it out to templates. And there you go.

    Actually, an added benefit of this approach is that you have total control over the SQL in use; you can hand off your templates to a DBA or whoever and they can tune them for you. That's not something you can usually do with autogenerated SQL.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re: Re: DBX offers simplified access to the DBI
by Tomte (Priest) on Feb 19, 2003 at 10:47 UTC

    ++rdfield; DBI is as much an abstraction as I see fit for DB interaction; perlish clean IMHO
    Now there's nothing wrong in encapsulating DB-interaction in Objects, e.g. the way slash does it, for a certain application in a certain context.
    A general abstraction into something 'more easy' is doomed to raise more problems in the long run; at least this is what my experience with java-apis tells me ;-)

    regards,
    tomte

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