[San-Diego-pm] Perl & MySQL

[Bob Kleemann]

Allen,

There are several free databases you could use.  If the SQL commands
you've written aren't very MySQL specific, you could translate it to
many other DBs without much difficulty.  If you've got a lot of MySQL
specific extensions to SQL in your commands, then it might be more
difficult.  I'd look at SQLite, and see if that supports your needs.
If not, there are several others that could meet your needs, but it's
hard to say without a better idea of what your applications needs.

Also, I'm CC'ing the rest of the San Diego Perl Mongers list, as I'm
sure many of them have some more experience moving from MySQL to other
DBs.

  -- Bob

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:02 AM,  <allengil at sdf.org> wrote:
> Bob,
>
> I use Perl & MySQL on my company provided laptop as sort of a day planner.
> It's just something I developed while working on my BSIT. Recently the IT
> Nazis at my company detected MySQL running on it, and demanded that I
> remove it immediately, claiming it was a security threat. I've been using
> this for over 10 years, and having my work history in a relational
> database has been quite helpful in recalling what I did. Do you have any
> suggestions on alternatives that won't require a massive rewrite of my
> code? I have a lot of SQL commands in there, and I would like to leave
> them alone if possible.
>
> Thanx,
>
> Allen Gilson
>