For the most part, all this module offers is the ability to call existing methods of DBI by different names -

It's not an alternative approach to database programming, as other modules are. Thus far, all others aim at:

• Removing OO, leaving pure simplicity (EZDBI)
• Abstracting SQL, leaving pure perl code that's transformed into SQL (DBIx::Abstract, DBIx::Easy)
• Remove the statement-idea completely (DBIx::DWIW)

The basics of DBI are very good, imho. I want an alternative that has OO, difference between connection and query statement, and does not abstract the SQL. Further, I want it to provide only simple features - no caching, no thousand-and-one ways of binding variables :)

That didn't exist, so I created one myself, just like everyone has done before. I have then documented it, and I have the dummy result object for easing error handling.

If this module would do more than call existing methods by different names, I had probably used another name, DBIx::Extra or something like that. This is not to _add_ functionality (it does remove functionality).

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