Hi John, > I have SuSE 7.3 installed on my system. I am using mysql to create > database tables. I was using db2 for linux but they want alot of money > for their product so I am going to use mysql instead. Is my > understanding correct that you use the dbi interface to link perl > modules to mysql.?
Absolutely! :-) > I was looking at one of the sites which has perl > modules.I am trying to download the base dbi module to the database > interaction. I need one that will work on my specific system. As stated, > I am using SuSE 7.3 on my system. I have an Athalon processor > 1.4 on my system. I use MySQL on SuSE 7.3, and all you should need is the DBI module, to interface with Perl, and the DBD::mysql driver to interface with DBI and the MySQL database. Get Tim Bunce's latest DBI module from: => http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/TIMB/ => DBI-1.20.tar.gz Get hold of Jochen Wiedmann's DBD::mysql driver, from: => http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/JWIED/ => DBD-mysql-2.1010.tar.gz You may also want to pick up all of Jochen Wiedmann's mSQL/MySQL modules, from the same CPAN address: => Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2219.tar.gz For further information, the following web sites may prove useful?: => http://dbi.perl.org/ => http://dbi.perl.org/cgi/moduledump?module=Msql-Mysql-modules => http://www.mysql.com/doc/P/e/Perl_installation.html => http://www.mysql.com/doc/P/e/Perl_support_problems.html Good luck! :-) Rgds, AndyD ===== Make Someone Happy. Buy a Copy of: => http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleopen/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GO/SS/TW d- s+:+ a C++$ U++$ P++++$ L++$ !E W+ N+ K- W O- M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP t+@ 5 X- R* tv- b+++ DI++ D G e++ h---- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
