(Slightly OT) Dec. '03 DDJ Article
From: Dean Arnold (darnold_at_presicient.com)
Date: 10/31/03
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To: "DBI-users" <dbi-users@perl.org> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:31:34 -0800
Just curious if anyone else got the latest issue of Dr. Dobbs, and read the
article "Networks, ODBC, & Perl". I couldn't find a single reference to DBI,
and the author gives a rather elaborate description of using Perl to use ODBC
in proxy mode via RPC::PlServer (sound familiar ?).
I realize the tech mag industry has fallen on hard times, but given the
number of books, maillists, newsgroups, etc. that cover Perl database
access via DBI, perhaps someone should send the DDJ editorial staff
a link to and tutorial on using Google ?
Some of the code examples made me cringe...calling all those
ODBC functions from Perl, and building a Proxyserver to boot.
How about:
Install ODBC driver on server
Install DBI on client and server
Install DBD::Proxy on client
Install DBI::ProxyServer on server
Write a DBI script
While it won't fill quite so many pages of print,
I think that would far better serve DDJ's intended audience
than the method presented.
Am I missing something here ? Maybe I'm misunderstanding
the motivation for the article ?
Puzzled,
Dean Arnold
Presicient Corp.
www.presicient.com
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