Hi, I'm trying to show someone how to connect to a MySQL DB with Perl. I've done this before but it was about 10 years ago. I know it is a pretty straight forward process except it is full of little details that must all be addressed. So my question is, Does anyone know of a good up to date tutorial for doing this on Windows? The ones I've been finding are either not for MySQL and there is the problem of interpreting the info from one DB to MySQL (currently I'm working from an oracle tutorial trying to install the driver, the oracle driver is clearly labelled as such but I cannot find a MySQL driver that is clearly labelled in the ppm) or the tutorial is 15 years out of date.

Any info you could point me at would be appreciated,

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