Re: [MacPerl] Database Connectivity

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 09.41 -0400 1999.05.05, David Steffen wrote:
>Chris,
>
>Thanks for your informative-as-usual post!
>
>Following up:
>
>>2.  Use a DBD that requires no external libraries (maybe even no XS code
>>... some are pure perl)
>
>(Substituting Create for Use in the above...) Does that not require
>knowledge of the interface to the DBMS, something not typically available?
>If I understand the FreeTBS project (http://metalab.unc.edu/freetds/), it
>is an effort to reverse engineer that interface for Sybase (and thus MS SQL
>server) to make such a thing possible.
>
>(I'm checking my understanding here.)

Well, right, that is one particular database.  I'll give you an example:
there is a DBD called DBD::CSV, that uses "databases" made of
comma-separated values.  It requires Text::CSV_XS and SQL::Statement, in
addition to DBI.  But DBD::CSV is pure perl.

There may be more advanced database servers and database formats that can
do the same.  You probably won't be able to do it with Oracle or Sybase,
but with others, maybe you will.

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