The DBI - What’s it all about?
 
 
- The Perl DBI defines and implements an interface to databases
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- Plug-in driver modules do the database-specific work
- DBI provides default methods, functions, tools etc  for drivers
- Not limited to the lowest common denominator
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- The Perl DBI has built-in…
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- Automatic error checking
- Detailed call tracing/debugging
- Flexible call profiling/benchmarking
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- Designed and built for speed