Chapter 21. ACCESSING A BACK-END MYSQL DATABASE WITH PERL
Introducing the MySQL Database
MySQL is a relational database system that is available for Linux, Windows, and many other platforms. You can use MySQL to efficiently store and retrieve data for your Perl CGI Web site, when you interface with it using the Perl DBI library.
The core of the MySQL source code has been released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL); however, it still has proprietary components that are licensed separately. For this reason, a free Community version of MySQL is available for download, along with a paid Enterprise version for higher-end deployments.
For small-scale Web sites, the MySQL client and server are installed directly onto the Web server's ...
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