I'm getting to grips with DBI too. IMHO, DBI is not particularly difficult, but if like me, you have to do a MySQL install and database administration, as well as coding your app - well than can make things more complicated and time-consuming than using your standard module. So unless MySQL is setup for you, I recommend relaxing with the O'Reilly MySQL and mSQL. It's really useful from a MySQL point of view, which IMHO is half the battle.
As to DBI, I found another O'Reilly Programming the Perl DBI useful. It does take about 3 chapters to get to discuss DBI (the first few chapters are a general introducion to not-relational database persistance in Perl, which, while off-the-point, are pretty useful in themselves. I'm biased 'cos I love books - also Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce deserve all the book-royalties they can get for providing such a wonderful module.
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I seem to recall that Programming the Perl DBI uses MySQL
in quite a few examples. I've found it to be quite a
good book. There's an appendix which provides specific
information about a number of programs (including MySQL).
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I disagree. DBI does not provide an application-level
interface to databases. It provides a somewhat
database-independent interface to databases, but this is
not the same as an application-level interface to databses.
Furthermore, the interface is not entirely database
independent. First, the generated SQL is not database
independent. With an extension of DBI, DBIx::Recordset,
it is database independent.
For a five-page critique of DBI, see my submission to the
Perl Journal:
http://lnc.usc.edu/~brannon/consulting/dbix.html
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I see what you mean... Try using Opera! It has a nifty little zoom percentage box that works very well. 150% magnification worked great here.
Great article btw!
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It has not been accepted yet --- I can email you a word
version if you wish.
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The MySQL book from the same publisher is good, too
It is not a exclusive perl book, though; it also covers C and other languages.
/wonko
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