SQL is not perl code. Therefore, it should not be in your perl programs. I generally have an 'SQL' directory that I keep one query per .sql file.

Now, all my html is loaded via HTML::Template and all my SQL is in external files. I only look at perl when I edit a perl file.

Functions to generate html is very ugly and a nightmare to maintain. So is SQL. Queries are complex business and should probably be written by hand; how many abstractions layers have gotten joins right?

Write your query, send it straight to DBI and use DBI's utility methods to get the output into a sane structure.

The only exception to this rule is inserts; insert queries are never more complex than a multivalued insert. Inserts should be automatically done for you.

oye.

In reply to Re: Rebuttle to chromatics by DrZaius
in thread Rebuttle to chromatics by princepawn

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