1997-07-14 09:23:33 -04:00
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Msql.pm and DBD::mSQL implement two different approaches to
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communicate with an mSQL server. DBD::mSQL is built upon the DBI, the
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generic Perl Database Interface. It brings you an identical interface
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to a broad variety of databases and is in this regard comparable to
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ODBC. The advantage of the DBI approach is portability and
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interoperability. Msql.pm is the elder species. It was written before
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DBI was available but it was inspired by an early draft of the DBI
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specification. As it has been circulating longer it is more mature and
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pretty stable. It's also more complete than DBD::mSQL.
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Some day in the future DBD::mSQL will probably be the clearly superior
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competitor in this package. Today you have to decide on your own about
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the trade-offs.
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