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Re: [MacPerl] database connectivity....at last!



At 16.52 -0400 1999.06.14, Richard Gordon wrote:
# So far, so good, but as some of you may know there's a new book on
# MySQL/mSQL coming out next month and a "beta" chapter about using Perl
# with this stuff is online at
# http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msql/chapter/ch10-beta.html. In that, the
# authors say
#
# "DBD/DBI stands for 'DataBase Dependent/DataBase Independent'."
#
# Maybe I'm nitpicking, but this doesn't sound right and leads me to
# wonder what else is in the book that may be of dubious authority. I was
# going to jump them about this on the reader comments page, but thought
# it would be prudent to run this by you guys to see if the authors are as
# wrong as I suspect.

It looks wrong to me, but I would not judge the whole book by this.  It is
a beta chapter, too.

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