Hi Anonymous Monk,
If you're attempting this as an exercise for yourself to learn about Databases and/or Perl in general then the links above provide some great material. However, if this is something you need in a hurry then I can highly recommend Interchange - part of the RedHat eCommerce suite. It does everything you have asked about and much, much more. There is a large community behind it, extensive documentation and feature rich management "backend". Its written in Perl and allows embedded Perl in its pages (or ASP, PHP like syntax if that tickles your fancy ;).

It's freely available for download (under the same style of licence as Perl itself)... go ahead, take a look.

Best of luck to you.

In reply to Re: Managing Inventory Sections with Perl and SQL by barrd
in thread Managing Inventory Sections with Perl and SQL by Anonymous Monk

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