Jeffrey wrote ..
>new to the list and will likely see plenty that will help; but here's
>something specific to my explorations now.
>
>I'm doing some development and testing for production and have pretty
>well decided Perl-Perl/Tk and Berkeley DB will best serve my purpose.
>This after exploring the DBI with DB2 (DBI is fine, but DB2 is overkill
>for many reasons), and other 'SQL'-like DBs/interfaces. Here's the
>difficulty: finding Perl-specific info/guide (ie more than Perl's
>BerkeleyDB mod papers) to help me under- stand the techniques and
>functions I'll need to write (or crib from CPAN) for the several kinds
>of record updates I need to perform. Sleepycat docs repeatedly mention
>BDB's ability to handle 'insert, delete, update recs' but I can't find
>a darn thing that explicitly and broadly says anything about updating
>recs, which is my main concern. The Perl/DBI book touches on using
>Berkeley DB to a minor degree but with using DB_File for 1.85. It's a
>start but I'm running out of places to look to find more info. Anybody
>know of anything? I've been through all the links at the Perl sites I
>know about. I'd be grateful for any steerage. Thank
I think you're underestimating your abilities :)
I mean this in the nicest way - I wouldn't consider what you're talking
about to be a beginner's topic .. so you might not find that you'll receive
the best answer here (I certainly have no idea)
it seems like a perfect question for the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup ..
I'm sure you'll find people there who can steer you correctly
take a look at the sorts of topics that this list deals with .. it's much
more basic than how to deal with the Perl/BDB interface
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