Thanks Juerd,

DBIx::Simple is one I have installed to have a play with and the same with DBI::Class.

Your remarks about performance are noted. I have one programme that work with a database of around 2 million records, Perl/DBI/MySQL is vastly faster than the MS-Access/VBA application it has replaced, but when I tried a version using some of the wrappers (I didn't record which gave what performance, just notes of preference) the performance sometimes took a hit of a factor of 3 to 10.

But I have a lot more playing to do yet!

jdtoronto