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Programming the Perl DBI

By Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce, ISBN 1-56592-699-4, First edition, published February 2000

The DBI is the standard database interface for the Perl programming language. The DBI is database-independent, which means that it can work with just about any database, such as Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Access, MySQL, etc.

While we assume that readers of this book have some experience with Perl, we don't assume much familiarity with databases themselves. The book starts out slowly, describing different types of databases and introducing the reader to common terminology.

This book is not solely about the DBI -- it also concerns the more general subject of storing data in and retrieving data from databases of various forms. As such, this book is split into two related, but standalone, parts. The first part covers techniques for storing and retrieving data without the DBI, and the second, much larger part, covers the use of the DBI and related technologies.

Throughout the book, we assume that you have a basic grounding in programming with Perl and can put together simple scripts without instruction. If you don't have this level of Perl awareness, we suggest that you read some of the Perl books listed in Section 0.1, "Resources ".

Once you're ready to read this book, there are some shortcuts that you can take depending on what you're most interested in reading about. If you are interested solely in the DBI, you can skip Chapter 2, "Basic Non-DBI Databases " without too much of a problem. On the other hand, if you're a wizard with SQL, then you should probably skip Chapter 3, "SQL and Relational Databases " to avoid the pain of us glossing over many fine details. Chapter 7, "ODBC and the DBI " is a comparison between the DBI and ODBC and is mainly of interest to database geeks, design aficionados, and those people who have Win32::ODBC applications and are desperately trying to port them to DBI.

Table of Contents
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Basic Non-DBI Databases
Chapter 3: SQL and Relational Databases
Chapter 4: Programming with the DBI
Chapter 5: Interacting with the Database
Chapter 6: Advanced DBI
Chapter 7: ODBC and the DBI
Chapter 8: DBI Shell and Database Proxying
Appendix A: DBI Specification
Appendix B: Driver and Database Characteristics
Appendix C: ASLaN Sacred Site Charter
Index
Colophon

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