Descartes Alligator, Bunce Tim. Programming the Perl DBI. Database programming with Perl

O’Reilly Media, 2000. — 366 p. — ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8.Programming the Perl DBI is coauthored by Alligator Descartes, one of the most active members of
the DBI community, and by Tim Bunce, the inventor of DBI. For the uninitiated, the book explains the
architecture of DBI and shows you how to write DBI-based programs. For the experienced DBI
dabbler, this book reveals DBI's nuances and the peculiarities of each individual DBD.
The book includes:
An introduction to DBI and its design
How to construct queries and bind parameters
Working with database, driver, and statement handles
Debugging techniques
Coverage of each existing DBD
A complete reference to DBI
This is the definitive book for database programming in Perl.