in reply to RE: DBI is dying??? in thread DBI Module for Windows
Not to be insensitive to your perceived ideas, but initially
the DBI wasn't designed for MySQL. As great as MySQL is (or
so I've heard), the DBI was designed in a much similar fashion
as ODBC, in the sense that someone obviously needed a standard
Perl interface. True it's still sensitive to the underlying
DBMS SQL version, but that gives it some nice power over ODBC
since you can actually write optimized SQL.
My point is, you've got some strange facts, since I constantly
see posts on the dbi-users mailing list, mostly from the DBD
authors, and since I was fully unaware of Tim Bunce's
involvement with mSQL-MySQL DBD development. I would imagine
that if he was needing the mSQL and MySQL DBD, he would have
written that one first.
And finally, I doubt O'Reilly (with their finger on the ever
constant pulse of developers), would have decided to so recently
publish a book on it if it was going to die so quickly. Unlike
other book publishers, I've rarely ever seen a book come out
from them about the newest hot thing until they had a chance
to actually research the subject and provide a useful resource.
ALL HAIL BRAK!!!
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