Appendix B. The Essential Guide to Perl DBI

In this appendix we'll examine the main elements of the application programming interface (API) for Perl DBI, the Perl module that's responsible for communication between Perl and the Oracle database. Of course, there is much more to learn about Perl DBI. Consult the online and offline references listed in Chapter 1, for additional and much more complete resources.

As with virtually all CPAN modules, you can generate the full online documentation for both Perl DBI and DBD::Oracle (the Oracle-dependent driver for Perl DBI), with the two following commands:

$ perldoc DBI
$ perldoc DBD::Oracle