Chapter 6. The DBI and DBD modules

Table of Contents
In this chapter...
What is DBI?
Supported database types
How does DBI work?
DBI/DBD syntax
Connecting to the database
Executing an SQL query
Doing useful things with the data
An easier way to execute non-SELECT queries
Quoting special characters in SQL
Exercises
Chapter summary

In this chapter...

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