This Perl MySQL section shows you how to interact with MySQL by using Perl DBI API for connecting to and disconnecting from MySQL databases, creating tables, handling data, and managing transactions.

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Embedding Perl into MySQL gave me a lot of flexibility in being able to extend my database quickly. For these reasons, the embedded MySQL Perl interpreter, MyPerl, was written.

I can do this with Perl, of course, using the DBI and DBD::mysql modules, hand-crafting program code to send the query to the database. I then could post-process the results with more code, ...

If you really want to try to access MySQL without using their client library you need to use DB :mysqlPP which is a pure-perl implementation of the mysql interface which requires no client software.

I have been assigned a small project that requires a Perl front end via CGI and a MySQL back end with a simple database. The database has basic names, addresses, and some flags to tell whether ...