On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> On Windows 2000, you have several choices. You can use an ODBC or ADO
> connection to your database through the Win32 modules (see
> http://www.roth.net/perl/odbc/), or you can use Perl's Database Interface
> (DBI), for which there are drivers available for MySQL. Take a look at
> http://dbi.symbolstone.org/index.html for more information on DBI. DBI is
> very similar to ODBC & JDBC, and enables you to create connections to
> database servers through a generic interface that uses a 'driver' for the
> particualr server you want to connect to. There's also an O'Reilly book
> on the DBI (although it needs to be updated -- rumour has it this is in
> the works). There is also a mailing list (of course) for DBI programming,
> and many of the people on this list are on that one.
Oops, forgot to give the addresses for joining this mailing list:
http://www.isc.org/services/public/lists/dbi-lists.html
-- Brett
Brett W. McCoy
Software Engineer
Broadsoft, Inc.
240-364-5225
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