My Journal and Diary
2003
March
Saturday, March 8th, 2003
Found It! ODBC Accessed by Perl!
Well I did it! It makes so much sense now. I wrote a Perl script which accesses my database using ODBC, and displays the results to a browser. The tricky part in all this is that:1. The database resides on a Windows machine
2. Perl needs to be installed on that machine
3. A HTTP server needs to be installed on that machine
What I love about the script I wrote is that I can just paste in SQL, and the script does the rest. It's not really rocket-science though, since I'm using a module (called DBI) which does the marriage between Perl and SQL. So now all I need is a better web server, because the one I'm using now is pretty slow. It's got to be able to handle Server Side Includes, so if anyone has any ideas, post it, or email me.
~Jason
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