Why the Perl DBI?
Once upon a time…
- One language, many database interfaces
A vision of the future... “DBperl”
- Talk, talk, talk - the dbperl-interest mailing list
Perl 5 - A new way
- Modules and Objects. The DBI is born.
The future is now…
- ODBC, Oracle, Informix, Ingres, mSQL, mysql, DB2, Solid, Sybase, Postgress, Quickbase, Empress, Fulcrum, ...
Notes:
Perl4: oraperl, ingperl, uniperl, fooperl
Ted Lemon: “Wouldn’t it be nice if” - Sept 29th 1992
Applications portable between databases
Skills portable between databases!
A vision of the future - Talk, talk, talk- the dbperl-interest mailing list
Buzz Moschetti, Kevin Stock, Kurt Andersen, Ted Lemon
Kevin and Kurt changed jobs and left the list.
30 people on the list. I took the lead at that point.
Dbperl spec is progressing and Perl 5 appears on the horizon
Perl 5 alpha releases becoming stable. Almost 200 people on list.
Prototype pure-perl ‘testbed’ released for experimentation.
Sept 1994 (Two years and 600 messages - 2MB - later...):
First release of the DBI (with a pure-perl driver)
interface stabilizing and more fully documented