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Programming the Perl DBI
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Programming the Perl DBI

by Tim Bunce, Alligator Descartes
February 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
364 pages
11h 47m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Batch Fetching

Batch fetching is the ability to fetch the entire result set from an SQL query in one call, as opposed to iterating through the result set using row-oriented methods such as fetchrow_array( ), etc.

The DBI defines several methods for this purpose, including fetchall_arrayref( ) and selectall_arrayref( ) , which basically retrieve the entire result set into a Perl data structure for you to manipulate.

fetchall_arrayref( ) operates in three different modes depending on what arguments have been passed to it. It can be called with no arguments, with a reference to an array slice as an argument, and with a reference to a hash slice as an argument. We’ll discuss these modes in the following sections.

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