On 2/10/10 Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:53 PM, "newbie01 perl" <newbie01.p...@gmail.com> scribbled:
> Hi Jim, > > Thanks for your advise ... > > Am currently having issues with using DBI and DBD and is constrained on > installing new DBI versions so at the moment my only option is to shell out. > > If I can get a "fix" on using DBI/DBD where I do not need to supply username > and password, then I will check choose to use that as the final choice. > > BTW, am a bit confused on when to use and not use DBD, can you please > elaborate on that if you don't mind? use DBI seems to be sufficient, is DBD > when the functionality that you want to use is specific to the database? I haven't used DBI/DBD in years, but as I recall the architecture was that DBI provides a consistent top-level database interface while one of the DBD modules provides an interface between the top layer (DBI) and the particular database you are using. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
