Currently, I'm using the DBD:AnyData driver with the DBI. (as if I was using it with something else...).

I understand the SQL side of this issue, but that's not the problem...

I believe (fingers-crossed / knock on wood / kiss the blarney stone / etc.) that I should be able to 'connect to' and 'join together' 2 (or more) flat file data sources relationally via the DBI, a properly structured SQL statement, and *any* DBD driver (stop me here if I'm wrong =8-D, but explain why in detail, pleaze).

I have gone thru the cheetah book (O'Reilly:Programming the Perl DBI) which shows you how to structure the SQL for a inner and outer join but I have yet to find any code examples in it using flat file data sources.

If you can point me to somewhere that has code in it that demonstrates how to acheive these sort of DB connections, point the way!

TIA

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Sean Shrum
http://www.shrum.net

In reply to How do I... Do relational DBI joins using 2 (or more) flat file data sources by S_Shrum

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