Hello,
I’m using 3.0.x on RHEL 3 right now in our production environment and was looking at setting up a new test environment. We use MySQL for the common bayes DB which is working well for us in production.
Today I tried installing the same packages for Perl that I did for our production installs which require DBD::mSQL. When I do an install of this package it fails miserably. Googling around it appears that this package is, or is being, deprecated or unsupported.
Is there an alternate package that I should be using? Some of the articles I have read recommend that we use DBD::mysql instead of DBD::mSQL. Does anyone know if this will work in place of the other package?
Gary Wayne Smith
Gary,
I'm not a database expert by any means, but I've done a bit with the DBI and MySQL. My understanding is that DBD::mSQL is an interface to a different SQL server than MySQL, although I don't remember which one off the top of my head.
If you're using MySQL, you want to use the DBD::mysql module. I'd be surprised if DBD::mSQL worked at all with MySQL.
hope this helps.
Alan
