Re: Perl site - Elementary question

usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> kejoseph@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I want to setup a "quick and dirty" site which grabs information from
>> users (in a form having 8-10 fields) and dumps it to a database.
>>
>
> If you mean a "real" database like MySQL (as opposed to appending info
> to a textfile, sometimes loosely called a "database") then you have a
> whole new area of programming to be 'overwhelmed' with.


Technically a flatfile database *is* a database, as a database is simply
where the info is stored. A 'real' database like MySQL is actually a
database management system, which ultimately stores everything in a file,
which is the 'database'.



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