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| author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2003-01-30 20:52:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2003-01-30 20:52:05 +0000 |
| commit | 04d666b12563dfde61714b0a22a39c0eb94d4f16 (patch) | |
| tree | 05bfd4fd5838fc00413490f7820434b353fa8a09 /pod/perlfaq8.pod | |
| parent | a5b510f29827514a9bbd7758f42522c7688a9dc7 (diff) | |
| download | perl-04d666b12563dfde61714b0a22a39c0eb94d4f16.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq8.pod b/pod/perlfaq8.pod index 31af4bd7df..164d23529e 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq8.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq8.pod @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.16 $, $Date: 2003/01/03 20:03:57 $) +perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.17 $, $Date: 2003/01/26 17:44:04 $) =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -1036,9 +1036,15 @@ in L<perlfaq8/"How do I start a process in the background?">. =head2 How do I use an SQL database? -There are a number of excellent interfaces to SQL databases. See the -DBD::* modules available from http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/ . -A lot of information on this can be found at http://dbi.perl.org/ +The DBI module provides an abstract interface to most database +servers and types, including Oracle, DB2, Sybase, mysql, Postgresql, +ODBC, and flat files. The DBI module accesses each database type +through a database driver, or DBD. You can see a complete list of +available drivers on CPAN: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/ . +You can read more about DBI on http://dbi.perl.org . + +Other modules provide more specific access: Win32::ODBC, Alzabo, iodbc, +and others found on CPAN Search: http://search.cpan.org . =head2 How do I make a system() exit on control-C? |