MySQL

Perl DBI Basics

This section provides background information for DBI—the information you'll need for writing your own scripts and for understanding scripts written by others. If you're already familiar with DBI, you may want to skip directly to the section "Putting DBI to Work."

DBI Data Types

In some ways, using the Perl DBI API is similar to using the C client library described in Chapter 6. When you use the C client library, you call functions and access MySQL-related data primarily by means of pointers to structures or to arrays. When you use the DBI API, you also call functions and use pointers to structures, except that functions are called methods, pointers are called references , pointer variables are called handles, and the structures ...