LPM: dbi

[Rich Bowen]

Janine Ladick wrote:
> 
> > > There is a book on Perl DBI, it is good not only because of examples,
> > > but generally their perspective on DB connectivity is excellent.
> > > It is from O`reilly.
> >
> > Every review that I have read suggests that you're better off just
> > reading the DBI documentation than shelling out the $30 for the DBI
> > book. The guys that wrote it are, of course, the people that are the
> > most qualified to write such a book, being the two lead developers on
> > the DBI project since day 0, but it's just not any better than the free
> > documentation, which is exceptional.
> 
> Hmm.  I ordered a copy of this from bookpool and it should arrive
> early this week.  (Mental Note: read book reviews *before* making
> purchases.)

I expect that I'll eventually buy it, but I suspect that it will be one
of those books that I buy and then only use one reference section of, if
I ever open it at all. I just find the DBI documentation so good that I
can't imagine getting anything more out of the book. Which is basically
what the reviews said.

Rich
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