På fredag, 17 december 2004, skrev Jay Strauss: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >Hi Jay, > > > >Question about Perl databases. I want to write an application that uses a > >db. Never played with db before. Ultimately, I want to write something > >that > >creates a webpage using the db data. > > > >I also want people to be able to simply install my program without worrying > >about installing other software, like msql or postgresql. > > > >When you use DBI, do you *have* to have a separate daemon-run database or > >is > >there a Perl module that provides a backend to DBI? > > > >I'd rather use DBI because it's more convenient for complex data structures > >and so I can use SQL, but if you need to install a database to use DBI, I > >might try to make due with DBM.
I recommend looking into Sqlite (http://sqlite.org/), one of the options that Jay mentioned. It is daemonless SQL database engine embedded in a C library, which stores its databases in binary files. It is fast and easy to manipulate via the Perl DBI. -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system usually rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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