On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:45:35AM -0500, Paul DuBois wrote: > > Most of MySQL and Perl for the Web is fairly database-independent, > in the sense that its discussion of DBI isn't tied specifically > to MySQL. On the other hand, it's an application-writing book, not > a reference book. If you're looking for the latter, I suggest > Descartes and Bunce, the O'Reilly book that you reference above. > That's what I use when I need to look up something that's not > in "perldoc DBI". Their book has received some criticism along > the lines that it's little more than what you can get from the online > docs, but I don't think that criticism is particularly accurate. Yes, > the book does include the perldoc material (why wouldn't it?) but > goes beyond it.
[Random observation] One comment I've seen several times is that some people skip Chapter 2 "Basic Non-DBI Databases" because they think it's not useful to them. In fact Chapter 2 discusses useful concepts including serialization that are valuable foundations to a deeper understanding of databases and how the DBI can be used. Tim.
