Just curious if anyone else got the latest issue of Dr. Dobbs, and read the article "Networks, ODBC, & Perl". I couldn't find a single reference to DBI, and the author gives a rather elaborate description of using Perl to use ODBC in proxy mode via RPC::PlServer (sound familiar ?).
I realize the tech mag industry has fallen on hard times, but given the number of books, maillists, newsgroups, etc. that cover Perl database access via DBI, perhaps someone should send the DDJ editorial staff a link to and tutorial on using Google ? Some of the code examples made me cringe...calling all those ODBC functions from Perl, and building a Proxyserver to boot. How about: Install ODBC driver on server Install DBI on client and server Install DBD::Proxy on client Install DBI::ProxyServer on server Write a DBI script While it won't fill quite so many pages of print, I think that would far better serve DDJ's intended audience than the method presented. Am I missing something here ? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the motivation for the article ? Puzzled, Dean Arnold Presicient Corp. www.presicient.com
