Is it possible to use DBI to get the type of a field in a table?
If so, how?
The point is that I want to have a portable script along mysql and
Oracle and
these may have different datatypes. So it might be best to query the
database
what datatype fieldx is, then use it to say create an auxillia
Hi, I have not been able to find this on the DBI book or anywhere else
I have a script that uses DBI to connect from a linux client to a mysql
server on another linux machine via
a connect(
my $dbh=DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:database_name;host=172.16.160.8',)
statement
This runs fine.
Now this ha
