Re: [MacPerl] databases

[Joel Rees <joel_rees@sannet.ne.jp>]

>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.  :)

I get the impression that he is more interested in the query engine than 
in the database engine. Do we have a nice query engine with our perl, too?

joel_rees@sannet.ne.jp

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