You also asked for examples of how it can make things easier. Here are some code nodes with DBIC.

One of the punchlines kind of buried in there is this shopping cart method– 

sub checkout_total {
   +shift->items->get_column("cost")->sum;
}

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DBIC starts to get extremely powerful in a short space and if treated correctly can be highly semantic and self-documenting. Chained ResultSets are another part of this but aren’t covered in my examples. They are in the Master Class XUL, linked in one of those, which is definitely worth a look.

In reply to Re: Why use an OO -> SQL mapper module? by Your Mother
in thread Why use an OO -> SQL mapper module? by MyMonkName

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