Programming the Perl DBI

Name

data_sources

Synopsis

@ary = DBI->data_sources($driver);
@ary = DBI->data_sources($driver, \%attr);

Returns a list of all data sources (databases) available via the named driver. The driver will be loaded if it hasn’t been already. If $driver is empty or undef, then the value of the DBI_DRIVER environment variable is used.

Data sources are returned in a form suitable for passing to the connect method (that is, they will include the dbi:$driver: prefix).

Note that many drivers have no way of knowing what data sources might be available. These drivers return an empty or incomplete list.