Perl for System Administration

References for More Information

SQL

http://w3.one.net/~jhoffman/sqltut.htm contains James Hoffman’s excellent SQL tutorial; try the links at the end of the tutorial for more good SQL sites.

DBI

Advanced Perl Programming,by Sriram Srinivasan (O’Reilly, 1997).

http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/index.html is the official DBI home page; this should be your first stop.

Programming the Perl DBI, by Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce (O’Reilly, 2000).

ODBC

http://www.microsoft.com/odbc contains Microsoft’s ODBC information. You may also want to search for ODBC on the http://msdn.microsoft.com site, looking carefully at the library material on ODBC in the MDAC SDK.

http://www.roth.net/perl/odbc/ is the official Win32::ODBC home page.

Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions, by Dave Roth (Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999). By the author of Win32::ODBC, currently the best reference for Win32 Perl module programming.

Other Topics

http://sybooks.sybase.com is where Sybase puts its entire documentation set online with an easy to navigate and easy to search interface. This sometimes comes in handy not just for Sybase/MS-SQL related questions, but for general SQL questions as well.

http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler/ is the home page of Michael Peppler (author of SybPerl and DBD::Sybase). Contains some useful information not just on Sybase, but also on SQL and database programming in general.