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<node id="879675" title="Introduction to databases in perl?" created="2010-12-29 14:11:03" updated="2010-12-29 14:11:03">
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Anonymous Monk</author>
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&lt;p&gt;I've been using Perl for quite a while, but have always used flat files for input and output. I am now at the point where that really isn't sufficient. 
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I'm looking for an introduction to the topic of databases in perl -- dbmopen, DBI, etc.  Any suggestions? Ideally, something a little more conceptual than "perldoc DBI"...
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The O'Reilly "Programming the Perl DBI" sounds like the kind of thing I'm looking for, but I'm put off by its age: it's almost eleven years old. Haven't things changed since 2000? Or has this stayed pretty much the same?&lt;/p&gt;</field>
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