note hrr Thank you for this useful insight! An active community is worth much, so I decided to use <a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=DBIx%3A%3AClass">DBIx::Class</a> for now. Setting it up and using it turned out to be only slightly more difficult (see my stumbling above) than for <a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Class%3A%3ADBI">Class::DBI</a>. 557402 557426