i use DBI str8 up all the time!

i know it probably seems shameful, but i have yet to find anything that learning it would seriously help me out more than take up my time! Im like this in my programming, especially when there is a deadline!

that said lately i have been looking at ways to do this, i mean you cant store dsn entries in a database if you dont know the database parameters now can you!?
:)
more often than not i store it in a simple file to require at start of program, iirc, someone at my old work had a 'DBI::DSN' type module which basically allowed the config stuff to be store in a file