Simon Cozens has written a gentle introduction to DBI that is tailored for beginners.
It's a good place to get started. It is worth bookmarking, to address newcomers when they ask how to program databases in Perl.
Perhaps a link to it from our Tutorials wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Personally, I believe that Reading from a database is more complete, but Cozen's text has a nice entertaining tone that can captivate the reader's attention.
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