Author: timbo Date: Wed Sep 14 03:02:25 2011 New Revision: 14934 Modified: dbi/trunk/lib/DBI/FAQ.pm
Log: Add note to DBI::FAQ that it is not maintained. Remove links to broken domain. RT67838 Modified: dbi/trunk/lib/DBI/FAQ.pm ============================================================================== --- dbi/trunk/lib/DBI/FAQ.pm (original) +++ dbi/trunk/lib/DBI/FAQ.pm Wed Sep 14 03:02:25 2011 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ### and copyright notices are retained ( the I<AUTHOR> and I<COPYRIGHT> sections ). ### Requests for other distribution rights, including incorporation into ### commercial products, such as books, magazine articles or CD-ROMs should be -### made to Alligator Descartes <I<http://www.symbolstone.org/descarte/contact.html>>. +### made to Alligator Descartes. ### package DBI::FAQ; @@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ That's B<very> old. A newer FAQ can be found at L<http://faq.dbi-support.com/> +Neither this document nor that web site are actively maintained. +Volunteers are welcome. + =head1 DESCRIPTION This document serves to answer the most frequently asked questions on both @@ -160,7 +163,6 @@ the DBI drivers list and the DBI module pages which can be found on: http://dbi.perl.org/ - http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI This list is automatically generated on a nightly basis from CPAN and should be up-to-date. @@ -320,7 +322,6 @@ Perl DBI" are available online at: http://dbi.perl.org/ - http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI in the driver information table. These summaries contain standardised information on each driver and database which should aid you in selecting @@ -330,7 +331,6 @@ =item I<Rambles, Tidbits and Observations> http://dbi.perl.org/tidbits - http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/tidbits There are a series of occasional rambles from various people on the DBI mailing lists who, in an attempt to clear up a simple point, end up @@ -342,7 +342,6 @@ A list of articles discussing the DBI can be found on the DBI WWW page at: http://dbi.perl.org/ - http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI These articles are of varying quality and age, from the original Perl Journal article written by Alligator and Tim, to more recent debacles published online @@ -356,7 +355,6 @@ can all be read from the main DBI WWW page at: http://dbi.perl.org/ - http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI =item I<Mailing Lists> @@ -404,7 +402,6 @@ files for each driver in advance online at: http://dbi.perl.org/ - http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI If it's a known problem, you'll probably have to wait till it gets fixed. If you're I<really> needing it fixed, try the following: @@ -761,11 +758,6 @@ thread-safe (but not thread-hot) by automatically blocking threads intering the DBI while it's already in use. -For some OCI example code for Oracle that has multi-threaded C<SELECT> -statements, see: - - http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/oracle/oci/orathreads.tar.gz - =head2 5.2 How do I handle BLOB data with DBI? Handling BLOB data with the DBI is very straight-forward. BLOB columns are @@ -950,7 +942,7 @@ =head1 AUTHOR -Alligator Descartes <I<http://www.symbolstone.org/descarte/contact.html>>. +Alligator Descartes. Portions are Copyright their original stated authors. =head1 COPYRIGHT @@ -966,7 +958,7 @@ and copyright notices are retained ( the I<AUTHOR> and I<COPYRIGHT> sections ). Requests for other distribution rights, including incorporation into commercial products, such as books, magazine articles or CD-ROMs should be -made to Alligator Descartes <I<http://www.symbolstone.org/descarte/contact.html>>. +made to Alligator Descartes. =for html <!--#include virtual="/technology/perl/DBI/templatebottom.html" -->
