Re: Re: Re: Why Perl does not support database access through core modules?

Wouldn't that kind of defeat the purpose? “This is the standard database interface for you to use, but, ehh, oh, you still have to download and install the specific driver for the database you're using.” Besides, your suggestion is already practice, you can download database drivers and the interface from CPAN, etc. and this is documented in perlfaq8.

Arjen

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Re x 4: Why Perl does not support database access through core modules? by bart (Canon) on Jan 21, 2004 at 11:17 UTC
You'll probably will still have to download, install and configure the database you plan to use, anyway, if you plan on using MySQL or PostGres. That is a much more daunting task. For more commercial databases, you have to start by downloading and installing the client libraries. Compared to these tasks, installing DBI is easy. Besides, DBI without any DBD::* drivers, is useless. OTOH, perhaps it wouldn't be unreasonable if Activestate started to include both DBI and DBD::ODBC with ActivePerl for Windows. That'd let those people have immediate access to their MS Office databases.	[reply]

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Re x 4: Why Perl does not support database access through core modules?
by bart (Canon) on Jan 21, 2004 at 11:17 UTC

DBI

Besides, DBI without any DBD::* drivers, is useless.

OTOH, perhaps it wouldn't be unreasonable if Activestate started to include both DBI and DBD::ODBC with ActivePerl for Windows. That'd let those people have immediate access to their MS Office databases.

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