in reply to MySQL basics

Can you be more specific about what you're looking for?

The MySQL website has plenty of information for installing, configuring and using MySQL. The MySQL Cookbook from O'Reilly is also a good reference.

On the other hand, if someone else (like the sysadmin, if you're working on someone else's system) is handling that, and you just want to write Perl to interface with it, DBI tutorials are probably what you need.

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Re: Re: MySQL basics
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 08, 2003 at 23:33 UTC
    Yes, all I want to do is use perl with a MySQL db because people have been telling me it's a lot better than the other db's I've mentioned above. MySQL is already installed and setup on my server, I just need really simple tutorials to get me started using perl with it.
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      MySQL is a popular database, but if you want more power, you should also look at PostgreSQL, which is a more complete and standard RDBMS. It'll take quite a while for MySQL to catch up to PostgreSQL, if ever. Might as well start with a real full-featured database.

      -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
      Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.

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        I have a couple of why doesn't Postgres do this while MySQL does questions: Why is there no unsigned option in Postgres? The amount of space wasted in the database due to inflation of datatype sizes just because I can't use an unsigned integer for an index column and have to move up to the next size column. Doubling the disk space used per each entry in a table, not to mention the possibilities of the column being indexed...
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