On 12 Jul 98, at 0:19, Chad Zimmerman wrote:
> Peter J. Schoenster wrote:
> > Forget using anything proprietary.
> >
> > Use DBI and then you can use the same script for msAccess, mySQL, mSQL,
> > Orcale etc. etc.
>
> Well, if I can intall and use it without having any admin privdgles I'll
> try it .. otherwise ...
You don't need to be root to install the modules. Here is a direct link which explains
just how to do it:
> 7.How to install perl5 modules into a local directory (when you can't
> become root). Introduction to CPAN.pm
http://www.esafe.com/stas/TULARC/webmaster/myfaq.html
And go here for great webmaster resources in general. The webmaster here has a lot of
experience and has already been where we are now.
http://www.esafe.com/stas/TULARC/
> Thanks will look. I looked today for a few hours and there are no good
> full tutorials on mSQL ... once I learn the basics I am going to do up a
> Tutorial on it that covers everying in a way people can understand.
Yes that is true. But don't make it mSQL specific. What you explain can be simply
RDMBS specific. DBI is the way to go:
use DBI;
my $data_source = 'dbi:mSQL:okpi';
my $dbh = DBI->connect("$data_source") || &print_error("Can't connect to
$data_source: $DBI::errstr");
You just change mSQL to mySQL or ORACLE or ODBC and if the tables are the same
then it will all work. I work with an Access database on my nt and then I export the
database and import it into mSQL and I use, more or less, the same Perl scripts.
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