Lets you create a DBI connection with parameters stored in a .ini style file. The password is stored encrypted.

This module is similar to DBIx::Password. The differences are that DBI connection parameters aren't stored as part of the module source code (but in an external .ini style file), and that this module lets you only one virtual user (i.e. one connection) per .ini file.

Like , this is a subclass of DBI, so you may call DBI function objects using DBIx::PasswordIniFile objects.

DBIx::SQLCrosstab produces a SQL query to interrogate a database and generate a cross-tabulation report. The amount of parameters needed to achieve the result is kept to a minimum. You need to indicate which columns and rows to cross and from which table(s) they should be taken. Acting on your info, DBIx::SQLCrosstab creates an appropriate query to get the desired result. Compared to spreadsheet based cross-tabulations, DBIx::SQLCrosstab has two distinct advantages, i.e. it keeps the query in the database work space, fully exploiting the engine capabilities, and does not limit the data extraction to one table.

See http://gmax.oltrelinux.com/cgi-bin/xtab.cgi for an interactive example.

Don't you hate keeping track of database passwords and such throughout your scripts? How about the problem of changing those passwords on a mass scale? This module is one possible solution. When you go to build this module it will ask you to create virtual users. For each user you need to specify the database module to use, the database connect string, the username and the password. You will be prompted to give a name to this virtual user. You can add as many as you like.

mod_dbi_pool provides database connection pooling services for other Apache Modules. Using libdbi it allows other modules to have a dynamic pool of database connections for many common SQL Servers, including mSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQLite.

XML::Generator::DBI is the replacement for DBIx::XML_RDB, which allowed you to convert a database query into 'on the fly' XML. XML::Generator::DBI does a lot more than just that, it generates SAX events and relies upon a SAX handler to handle them in some manner. This adds more complexity to the process, but it also adds more flexibility, allowing you to do more than simply create a string or XML file. This tutorial aims to showcase the features of XML::Generator::DBI while providing concrete examples of sample usage.

Good source of documentation on the DBI and some examples (and different than the book) of how to use. Very good on fetches.

Another instance of the DBI recipes. This one is at Perl Monks.

Interesting module. May make it easier to build the generalized database routines.

From Mick O'Leary's review in Info Today (December 2005, p. 43): "DBI is a union catalog of e-books and other e-documents from commerical publishers, nonprofit publishers, government agencies and libraries. It lists more than 110,000 titles, with more than 72,000 of them available for free."