Re: database troubles

2006-08-11 Thread Jay Savage
On 8/10/06, hOURS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm new to the list. Thanks everyone for having/doing this. I want to use PERL to work with a database, but I can't seem to get PERL to open the databases on my computer. I've been learning from Paul Hoffman's PERL for Dummies (3rd editi

RE: database troubles

2006-08-10 Thread Timothy Johnson
I have no idea what dbmopen is, but I would seriously recommend scrapping all of that and just going with DBI and DBD::ODBC (the DBI driver that allows you to work with ODBC data sources). Here's a small example of how you can work with DBI to get data from a database using a DSN you set up on the