Re: your first idea of writing database accessing functions. I did just this, coming up with a "Table" module that allows this sort of syntax: 

use Nexcerpt::Table qw(names cities states);

my $Michigan = states->get({ abbrev => 'MI' });

$Michigan->put({ timezone => 'Eastern' });

my $Puerto_Rico = states->new({ abbrev => 'PR',
name => 'Puerto Rico', ... });
$Puerto_Rico->put;

print $Puerto_Rico->{sequence};  # fields auto-updated on put

my @homes = cities->getall('WHERE name = ?','Springfield');

etc.

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I did all this before coming across Class::DBI, which might have rendered this moot, but I don't regret it because I learned so much about OOP I didn't know before. (I'm currently unable to share the whole code base of this; I hope I can someday. Meantime, I'm happy to discuss it via email.)
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