On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, E. Alan Hogue wrote:
> I notice there's been some talk about DBI lately. My
> appologies if this duplicates anything covered lately.
>
> I need to hook up to an Access database running, of
> course, on a win32 system. I am completely new to DBI.
>
> I found a DBD on CPAN for ODBC, but the documentation
> attached to it only covered using it with Cygwin. I
> would love to put Cygwin on my machine at work, but
> wonder if the powers that be would be scandalized. Is
> it necessary to use Cygwin to use DBI with Access, or
> is it possible to get everything running with
> activestate and regular old windows 2000? If so, can
> anyone point me to a good source of information on how
> to do this?
No, it isn't necessary to use CygWin. You can get DBI & DBD::ODBC for
use with ActiveState with PPMs. As an alternative, you can also use
Win32::ODBC.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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