On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:52:58 +0100 (BST), David Mitchell wrote:
>> From: Eric Strovink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Write a simple socket interface to connect Apache Perl to your existing
>Windoze Perl script (which you'll hack to set up as a simple server). Invent
>your own protocol. Locking issues will come
>> up, but you can manage this yourself with a little creativity. There are
>pretty good examples of how to do simple socket things with Perl, in the Perl
>books.
>
>This has already been done! See DBD::Proxy.
>
>This allows you to run a little perl Program on the machine with the Access
>DB which acts as a proxy DB server, then the client uses
>DBD::Proxy (as opposed to DBD::Oracle or whatever) to access the
>database.
>Never tried it myself, but it sounds cool!
>
I use it regularly, and it works fine ...
Not good for heavy use, but for the 3-4 times a month
it gets used in production, it works perfectly okay.
Brgds,
Mike.
