Graciliano,

Thank you for your help.

For the PerlApp versions, I am going to try to build a Windows executable and a Linux executable that have the DBI binary and possibly some DBD binaries as well. Including DBD binaries in the executables would be a convenience for Windows and Linux webmasters.

However, for the generic Unix version of the script, I think I will need to distribute the DBI source or leave downloading and compiling to the webmaster.

HDB sounds interesting as well. It's been a while since I have worked with databases such as Oracle and SQL Server, etc. I vaguely remember that the steps to create a database table are different. That is, I may not be able to have a SQL statement create a database table in SQL Server and have that same SQL statement create a database table in an Oracle database. If the DBD modules don't handle this, HDB may be attractive.

I now see why SQLite may be interesting as well: a database server doesn't need to be around for it to work. I'll read more about SQLite. Maybe this is an option for webmasters who are already familiar with SQLite and have tools that can get at the tables inside the database.

Thanks again,

Richard

In reply to Re: Re: To DBI or not to DBI by rzward
in thread To DBI or not to DBI by rzward

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