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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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Rich Metadata

ODBC defines a wide range of metadata functions that provide information both about the structure of the data in the database and the datatypes supported by the database. The following table lists the functions and shows which are supported by the Win32::ODBC and DBI modules.

ODBC Function

Win32::ODBC

DBI

Tables

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TablePrivileges

  

Columns

 

ColumnPrivileges

  

SpecialColumns

 

Statistics

 

PrimaryKeys

 

ForeignKeys

 

Procedures

  

ProcedureColumns

  

GetTypeInfo

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As you can see, the DBI lags behind the Win32::ODBC module. By the time you read this book, ...

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