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Look in this section for articles and tutorials that show you how to access a database and retrieve data from a Perl script.
ODBC and Unicode. Inserting and selecting Unicode data.
Avoid errors by following our Perl DBI best practices. Track down errors quickly by selectively logging your application's DBI activity with DBIx::Log4perl.
This tutorial provides example CGI scripts written in Perl that display the contents of a database table in an HTML page. The tutorial also describes how to separate HTML from database data by using the HTML::Template module. Finally, it shows you how to dynamically alter a SQL query based on values supplied from a URL or a form input box.
This document describes how to build Perl DBI, add the DBD::ODBC module and use an ODBC driver provided by Easysoft in your Perl scripts. It shows you how to quickly add ODBC support to your Perl applications.
This tutorial describes the ODBC data sources that let you access your databases and shows you how to connect to a database from a Perl script.
Read this tutorial for example Perl scripts that show you how to execute a SQL statement, fetch, and display the results. The tutorial discusses the performance advantages of using parameters in prepared SQL statements. It also describes the various methods Perl DBI provides for retrieving data.
Connect Perl with SQL Server 7–2022 and Express.
How to achieve Multiple Active Statements (MAS) support without resorting to multiple connections. Includes code samples.
Perl web sites and mailing lists, including the site where you can download the DBI and DBD::ODBC modules.