My personal opinion is that cutom databases are very easy to create in a perl script and usually run faster and more efficient than cumbersome packages. there are many perl freebies out there to start you in the right direction and will also serve as a better learning tool. basically a database is simply a function that takes input, formats it, opens a disk file, and write the data to a disk file. In perl this can be done quite easily. It still amazes me how all of these cumbersome packages evry make it to the marketplace.
If you tell me what you are trying to do I can send you sections of code that will make it easy. Charles Maureen E Fischer wrote: > I am writing my first CGI application and after analysis of the data > structure that is required I determined that a DBM file would not be > sufficient. Mysql was suggested to me. Unfortunately I could not find > A book that seemed based on Perl and sql. Everything I found connected > Mysql to PHP -- which I know nothing about. Since I am new to almost > Everyting except some ancient languages and systems I didn't want to > Bite off yet another learning experience just yet. I did find and > purchase "Writing CGI Applications with Perl", which did have a chapter > on sql, but since I am having trouble with my first connect I think I > will need more > Help then the brief chapter can give me. Any suggestion would > Be very welcome. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
