Need advice to access Sybase Database, compile data, and send email

khaji00 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I'm starting to learn perl and was seeking some direction on a issue i'd like to solve with perl. I have a collection of data (first names, last names, addresses, email addresses, etc..) in a Sybase database.
I wanted to use Perl to access the database, grab all of the emails, export them (to a csv or xls, whatever is best), and send a email.
These are customers of a retail store i run and would like to start email marketing. Is this something perl can help me manager and deploy? Thanks for the help.

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Re: Need advice to access Sybase Database, compile data, and send email by mikelieman (Friar) on Nov 18, 2008 at 19:40 UTC
The DBI/DBD::Sybase modules will handle the database access Text::CSV will handle the output. Email::Simple should be sufficient to emit an email message. Good Luck and HAVE FUN!	[reply]