| Table of ContentsAdvanced Perl DBI Topical Topics Trimmed Topics and Tips The DBI - What’s it all about? A picture is worth? Speed    Speed    Speed! Give me speed! Partition for speed Prepare for speed The best laid plans MySQL’s EXPLAIN PLAN Oracle’s EXPLAIN PLAN PPT Slide Changing plans (hint hint) Respect your server's SQL cache Hot handles Sling less for speed Bind those columns! Do more with less! Speedy Summary Optimizing Perl - Some Tips Profiling DBI Performance How fast was that? How fast was what? Attribution Attribution - For Handles Attribution - For Methods What’s in a name? Handling your Handles Let the DBI cache your handles Some prepare_cached() issues Keep a handle on your databases A connect_cached() example Some connect_cached() issues Binding (Value Bondage) First, the simple stuff... Then, some more detail... Your TYPE or mine? Got TIME for a DATE? Some TYPE gotchas Error Checking & Error Handling The importance of error checking Error checking - ways and means Handling errors the smart way Catching the Exception Picking up the Pieces Custom Error Handling More Custom Error Handling Information and Warnings Transactions Transactions - Eh?  Transactions - Life Preservers Transactions - How the DBI helps Transactions - Example code Transactions - Further comments Intermission? Wheels within Wheels Setting the scene Architecture of the DBI classes #1 Architecture of the DBI classes #2 Anatomy of a DBI handle Method call walk-through Watching the DBI in action Enabling tracing Our program for today... Trace level 1 Trace level 2 and above What’s new with tracing? DBI for the Web Web DBI - Connect speed Web DBI - Too many connections Web DBI - State-less-ness Web DBI - Browsing pages of results Web DBI - Concurrent editing Web DBI - Tips for the novice Other Topics Bulk Operations DBI security tainting Handling LONG/BLOB data Portability Portability in practice SQL Portability - Data Types SQL Portability - SQL Dialects SQL Portability - SQL Dialects SQL Portability - Driver Capabilities SQL Portability - Metadata DBI::SQL::Nano DBI::SQL::Nano DBI::SQL::Nano The Power of the Proxy, Flexing the Multiplex,and a Pure-Perl DBI! DBD::Proxy & DBI::ProxyServer A Proxy Picture Thin clients and other buzz words The practical realities DBD::Multiplex DBI::PurePerl And finally... DBI v2 - Incompatible Changes DBI v2 - Other Changes DBI v2 - Also… Reference Materials The end. |