Programming the Perl DBI

Resources

To help you navigate some of the topics in this book, here are some resources that you might want to check out before, during, and after reading this book:

http://dbi.perl.org

The DBI home page. This site contains lots of useful information about DBI and where to get the various modules from. It also has links to the very active dbi-users mailing list and archives.

http://www.perl.com/CPAN

This site includes the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network multiplexer, upon which you find a whole host of useful modules including the DBI.

An Introduction to Database Systems, by C. J. Date

This book is the standard textbook on database systems and is highly recommended reading.

A Guide to the SQL Standard, by C. J. Date and Hugh Darwen

An excellent book that’s detailed but small and very readable.

http://w3.one.net/~jhoffman/sqltut.htm http://www.jcc.com/SQLPages/jccs_sql.htm http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql.html

These web sites contain information, specifications, and links on the SQL query language, of which we present a primer in Chapter 3. Further information can be found by entering “SQL tutorial” or similar expressions into your favorite web search engine.

Learning Perl, by Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen

A hands-on tutorial designed to get you writing useful Perl scripts as quickly as possible. Exercises (with complete solutions) accompany each chapter. A lengthy new chapter introduces you to CGI programming, while touching also on the use of library modules, ...