Chapter 4. The DBI and DBD modules

Table of Contents
4.1. In this section...
4.2. What is DBI?
4.3. Supported database types
4.4. How does DBI work?
4.5. DBI/DBD syntax
4.6. Connecting to the database
4.7. Executing an SQL query
4.8. Doing useful things with the data
4.9. An easier way to execute non-SELECT queries
4.10. Quoting special characters in SQL
4.11. Exercises
4.12. Section summary

4.1. In this section...

In this section we look at the Perl module which can be used to interact with many database servers: DBI.