See Also

Driver and Database Documentation

Refer to the documentation for the DBD driver you are using.

Refer to the SQL language reference manual for the database engine you are using.

Books and Journals

Developing the Perl DBI, by Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce

Perl Developing, 2nd Ed, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal Schwartz

Learning Perl, by Randal Schwartz

Dr Dobb's Journal, November 1996

The Perl Journal, April 1997

Manual Pages

Consult the perl manpage, the perlmod manpage, and the perltutorial manpage.

Mailing List

The dbi-users mailing list is the primary means of communication among users of the DBI and its related modules. Subscribe and unsubscribe via:

http://www.isc.org/dbi-lists.html

There are typically between 700 and 900 messages per month. You have to subscribe in order to be able to post. However, you can opt for a "post-only" subscription.

Mailing list archives are held at:

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/dbi/

http://www.egroups.com/list/dbi-users/info.html

http://www.bitmechanic.com/mail-archives/dbi-users/

Assorted Related WWW Links

The DBI home page:

http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI

Other DBI-related links:

http://tegan.deltanet.com/~phlip/DBUIdoc.html

http://dc.pm.org/perl_db.html

http://wdvl.com/Authoring/DB/Intro/toc.html

http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/backend/tutorials/tutorial1.html

Other database-related links:

http://www.jcc.com/sql_stnd.html

http://cuiwww.unige.ch/OSG/info/FreeDB/FreeDB.home.html

Commercial and data warehouse links:

http://www.dwinfocenter.org

http://www.datawarehouse.com

http://www.datamining.org

http://www.olapcouncil.org

http://www.idwa.org

http://www.knowledgecenters.org/dwcenter.asp

Recommended Perl developing link:

http://language.perl.com/style/

FAQ

Please also read the DBI FAQ which is installed as a DBI::FAQ module. You can use perldoc to read it by executing the perldoc DBI::FAQ command.