Re: interacting with table layouts using DBI

From: Andrew Gaffney (agaffney_at_skylineaero.com)
Date: 03/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:22:27 -0600
To: beginners@perl.org

Ed Pigg wrote:
>
> On Mar 2, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way with DBI (or anything other modules) to retrieve
>> and modify the layout of database tables in a MySQL DB?
>
>
> You might want to look at Class::DBI on CPAN.

That is the general idea. I was thinking about something that let you have a little more
control over the creation of tables and fields, such as data types and field lengths. 

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Andrew Gaffney
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