Hi Steven,

While I can see the use of a DBD::MockDB... I have a hard time determining if it would be worth the effort.

Specifically because the various DBMS can be wildly different (GDBM, Sybase ASE, Oracle, Poet ODBMS, Postgres, etc.). Often you will find that you have to code queries and even algorythms specially coded for your desired DBMS. Simple dbms client applications can usually get away with DBMS neutral coding but if you are talking about enterprise-class applications, you usually end up choosing a DBMS and sticking with it, unfortunately.

If you were simply talking about testing your code with a bare bones "get a record", "write a record", then I would go for the suggestions the others have mentioned (GDBM, DBM, xBase, etc.)

hope this helps

Jason

No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1

In reply to Re: Has anyone ever written DBD::MockDB by jfroebe
in thread Has anyone ever written DBD::MockDB by stvn

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