I'm starting a large (for me) project that has quite a few mysql tables, and I need to write quite a few functions to access these tables. I discoved that a lot of the code is the same, differing only in table names and such. For example, 
sub getCustomerById {
    my $id = shift;
    my $dbh = sqlConnect();
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM customers WHERE cust_id=?")
+;
    $sth->execute($id);
    my $result = $sth->fetchrow_hashref();
    $sth->finish();
    return $result;

}

sub getUserByUserId {
    my $id = shift;
    my $dbh = sqlConnect();
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id=?");
    $sth->execute($id);
    my $result = $sth->fetchrow_hashref();
    $sth->finish();
    return $result;
}

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And there will be many similar instances. Is there a better way to generate all these funcions? Is that good practice, or should they all be written out in a source file somewhere?

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