Good luck with the SQL.

And, to keep things perlish...

You may already know all this, but there are a *lot* of perl approaches to accessing databases. At their base, they all use 'DBI'. That defines the interface and DBD::xxx module provides the back-end which talks to the database.

There are an abundance of modules to layer on top of these if you choose (DBIx::Class, Class::DBI and others), which can avoid you having to actually use SQL. I'm not sure I'd recommend these if your needs are really simple. But have a play and see what suits you best. There is also plenty of DB-related stuff in the perlmonks [id://Tutorials] section.

In reply to Re^3: Best practices for modifying a file in place: q's about opening files, file locking, and using the rename function by jbert
in thread Best practices for modifying a file in place: q's about opening files, file locking, and using the rename function by davebaker

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