The Perl database module to use is DBI.

I disagree. DBI might be a solution. It depends what you want. If you are satisfied with the lowest common denominator API, and you're going to swap database servers around, DBI is the way to go. But swapping database servers isn't common, just as people don't run a different OS or different hardware every week, and nor do they swap from language to language.

Instead, you might prefer access to the full API of your database vendor. Sybase has three different libraries, DBlib, CTlib and BCP. There's an excellent, mature Perl interface for that (Sybase::* aka sybperl).

DBI is nice, but like most things, it's not the be all, end all. Why can't we apply there is more than one way to do it on modules?

-- Abigail

In reply to RE: (chromatic) Re: Login? by Abigail
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