Appendix G. Perl DBI API Reference

This appendix describes the Perl DBI application-programming interface. The API consists of a set of methods and attributes for communicating with database servers and accessing databases from Perl scripts. The appendix also describes MySQL-specific extensions to DBI provided by DBD::mysql, the MySQL database driver.

Some DBI methods and attributes are not discussed here, either because they do not apply to MySQL or because they are new, experimental methods that may change as they are developed or may even be dropped. Some MySQL-specific DBD methods are not discussed due to being obsolete. If you want more information about new or obsolete methods, see the DBI documentation or the MySQL DBD documentation, which ...

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