Re: [MacPerl] databases

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 20.55 +1030 2000.02.03, jakal wrote:
>I know that this is somewhat off topic, but what databases can people
>recomend for use with MacPerl and CGI scripts?? I need to store basic data
>about members of a club, and use the CGI to return data taken from, and
>based on the data in a database. I have just been using && delimited fields
>in text files, but I would like to be able to store the data in such a way
>that I can easily alter the queries that generate the HTML pages as output.

I use DB_File for most things.  Costs nothing, is fast, comes with MacPerl.
It works with MLDBM and Storable for multidimensional data.  Its biggest
drawback is in multiple accesses, which is not a big problem for MacPerl
CGIs, since MacPerl can only execute each CGI one at a time.  :)

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