First Steps Perl DB programming (was: first steps - read from files and make linklist)

[Wiggins D Anconia]

> Hello list,
> I am as well a beginner to Perl and am currently working my way through
> the LLama and I have also purchased the Camel and am looking through it.
> My goal is to be able to do some programming for a MySQL database that I
> am in charge of running. Any help along with the previous message would
> be great.
>

Your question, other than context, is really completely different. In
general the canned response of,

"You will want to become familar with the DBI module available from
CPAN. It is a generic Perl interface that uses engine specific drivers
to control any of numerous types of engines, MySQL being one of those."

Should get you most of the way there, assuming you then go and read the
documentation for DBI. ORA also has a book "Programming the Perl DBI"
that is excellent coverage of the material if you are into the whole
book thing.

[url]http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.39/DBI.pm[/url]

[url]http://danconia.org[/url]

[Jonathan Jesse]

Sorry for being off topic. I am slowly trying to learn the basics and
then eventually move over to the work on the SQL side of things. Thanks
for the idea for the book, I'll look into that along with the
documentation.

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:01:54 -0700, Wiggins D Anconia
<wiggins@danconia.org> wrote:

>
>

>> Hello list,
>> I am as well a beginner to Perl and am currently working my way through
>> the LLama and I have also purchased the Camel and am looking through it.
>> My goal is to be able to do some programming for a MySQL database that I
>> am in charge of running. Any help along with the previous message would
>> be great.
>>

>
> Your question, other than context, is really completely different. In
> general the canned response of,
>
> "You will want to become familar with the DBI module available from
> CPAN. It is a generic Perl interface that uses engine specific drivers
> to control any of numerous types of engines, MySQL being one of those."
>
> Should get you most of the way there, assuming you then go and read the
> documentation for DBI. ORA also has a book "Programming the Perl DBI"
> that is excellent coverage of the material if you are into the whole
> book thing.
>
> [url]http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.39/DBI.pm[/url]
>
> [url]http://danconia.org[/url]

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[R. Joseph Newton]

Jonathan Jesse wrote:

> Sorry for being off topic. I am slowly trying to learn the basics and
> then eventually move over to the work on the SQL side of things. Thanks
> for the idea for the book, I'll look into that along with the
> documentation.

Very good strategy. One study at a time. Learning perl from a basics-first
approach will put you in a much stoinger position when you get to applying your
skills.

Joseph