this may help. Googled it myself. :)
(Update) - In case the page is ever down or gone... here is JUST the example w/o the text, thank you raditha.com. 

use DBI;

our $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:filemanager:localhost',
                       'visual',  # user name
                       'not4you',  # password
                       { RaiseError => 1 });

my $sth= $dbh->prepare(
"INSERT INTO uploadedFiles(fileType,fileName,fileSize,fileData) VALUES
+ ( ?,?,?,?) ");
open(my $fh, 'index.gif' ) or die $!;
binmode $fh; #Update, added for podmaster by sporty to the example
read( $fh, $var, -s $fh );
$sth->execute('image/gif','index.gif',1471,$var);

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