This sounds pretty nifty. I'd love to try playing with it. *mumble* years ago, I wrote an Open Server much as you describe: it retrieved stock quotes and prices from several different sources and presented them with a unified interface. (I say "I" but in fact I led a group of 5-10 developers.) Essentially we used TDS as a network transport protocol -- your post doesn't make this obvious, but TDS is a distributed protocol.

One problem I see with this is TDS being tied to Sybase (and now Microsoft). The client for whom I wrote that Open Server is slowly moving away from Sybase -- for various reasons, not all of them technical. That includes slowly decomissioning all Open Servers. But if you're in a dedicated SQL Server shop, I agree it would be very nice to be able to generate result sets from Perl code.

Are you planning on putting this on CPAN?

In reply to Re: Perl in the database? by VSarkiss
in thread Perl in the database? by mpeppler

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