Re: newbie DBI

2001-07-29 Thread Rachel Coleman
> >I'm trying to decide on using DBI or an ODBC connection for moving data > >into or out of MS ACCESS 97 (or 2000) and back into the ACCESS table > >[yep, or change inside table]. > > > >Given I need to perform all the usual extract and append, etc. tasks, do > >any of you have suggestions or poi

Re: newbie DBI

2001-07-27 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Sean O'Leary wrote: > > > ODBC is a low-level API for connecting to databases, and is designed to be > > > accessible from many a programming language. To my knowledge, there's no > > > module for using ODBC from Perl, without using DBI. > > > >Win32::ODBC is an alternative

Re: newbie DBI

2001-07-27 Thread Sean O'Leary
At 04:54 PM 7/27/2001, you wrote: >On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Sean O'Leary wrote: > > > ODBC is a low-level API for connecting to databases, and is designed to be > > accessible from many a programming language. To my knowledge, there's no > > module for using ODBC from Perl, without using DBI. > >Win3

Re: newbie DBI

2001-07-27 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Sean O'Leary wrote: > ODBC is a low-level API for connecting to databases, and is designed to be > accessible from many a programming language. To my knowledge, there's no > module for using ODBC from Perl, without using DBI. Win32::ODBC is an alternative to using DBD::ODBC

Re: newbie DBI

2001-07-27 Thread Sean O'Leary
At 01:56 PM 7/27/2001, you wrote: >** Using ActiveState Build 522 (NT) > >I'm trying to decide on using DBI or an ODBC connection for moving data >into or out of MS ACCESS 97 (or 2000) and back into the ACCESS table >[yep, or change inside table]. > >Given I need to perform all the usual extract a

Re: newbie DBI

2001-07-27 Thread Akshay Arora
There are quite a few ODBC modules out there. One that lets you program using the actual OLE ( I think they all do really), is the Win32 set of modules written by Dave Roth. The book he wrote is decent, all about Perl Win32 programming. I personally found programming for Access using Perl was quit

Re: newbie DBI

2001-07-27 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Steve.Few wrote: > I'm trying to decide on using DBI or an ODBC connection for moving data > into or out of MS ACCESS 97 (or 2000) and back into the ACCESS table > [yep, or change inside table]. If you use DBI, you will need to use DBD::ODBC anyway, since there isn't a specf

newbie DBI

2001-07-27 Thread Steve.Few
** Using ActiveState Build 522 (NT) I'm trying to decide on using DBI or an ODBC connection for moving data into or out of MS ACCESS 97 (or 2000) and back into the ACCESS table [yep, or change inside table]. Given I need to perform all the usual extract and append, etc. tasks, do any of you have