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Books : Programming the Perl DBI: Database Programming with Perl
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: The interestingly named Alligator is a database programmer and Perl module developer. Tim Bunce wrote DBI--the Perl DataBase Interface. DBI is a series of Perl modules providing a standard API to a variety of database engines. Perl DBI is a natural choice for dynamically generating Web pages from databases. DBI's greatest strengths are portable code and the concealment of proprietary database interfaces. The first half of Programming The Perl DBI covers non-DBI database types, pros and cons and data handling. Perl is used to create, explain and work with these. It's assumed that the reader is a competent enough Perl programmer to write the scripts as well as follow them. The point is to familiarise you with database technologies. Having dealt with SQL and other database related issues in chapter three, the authors introduce the DBI, demonstrate database connection and error handling in chapter four. The last four chapters cover database interaction, advanced DBI features, ODBC and finally shell and database proxying. Three appendices cover the DBI specification, driver and database characteristics and the ASLaN Sacred Site Charter. (The authors are megalithic site aficionados and use UK megalithic sites as database examples throughout the book). Descartes and Bunce's book is a rare combination--an entertaining and accessible guide to using Perl DBI that's also a readable and often amusing introduction to database technology.--Steve Patient Average Rating:
 Rating:  - LimitedI picked up this book because I had a perl/sybase project. My opinion is that this is very limited book. Most people will only use Ch5 "Interacting with the database" - 25 pages. These important 25 pages lack organisation and logical structure. The book covers the perl DBI, by that I assumed everything to make a database work with perl - wrong! It covers exactly and only the DBI. Example: If you've been working with databases for more than a week you will want to know how to detect and respond to ... Read More Rating:  - Helpful reference bookThis book doesn't really cover much about Perl and the DBI module that you couldn't find with a quick trawl through Google, but it is handy to have all the material you need together to hand. If you're the kind of person who likes to be able to just pick up a book to find what you need to know, it's well worth buying - it's an authoritative source of information and will get you writing decent Perl + DBI scripts to interact with a database in no time. Rating: - A clear, comprehensive and accessible book.As someone who knows a little bit about Perl and a reasonable amount about databases, I found this book did just what it said: taught me how to access databases from Perl. An hour or so's reading and a bit of messing about and I had the application I needed written in a couple of days. It can, admittedly, seem like quite bad value for money: you'll probably only need to read two or three chapters of the book unless you're using more than one RDBM or don't know a lot about databases, ... Read More Rating: - A book about the DBI, not programming databases from Perl.This is a good book, IF: - You want the online documentation with some extra fluff on databases, extra examples and the DBI spec. in one handy place (pages 187 - 333 are pretty much available online, the rest of the book is the online material filled out). - You are interested in learning about the DBI, the book is about the DBI rather than database programming. This is not a good book, IF: - You want to learn how to program databases from the web (the widest ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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