Chapter 16. Simple Databases

Chapter 16. Simple Databases

Databases permit us to allow data to persist beyond the end of our program. The kinds of databases we're talking about in this chapter are merely simple ones; how to use full-featured database implementations (Oracle, Sybase, Informix, mySQL, and others) is a topic that could fill an entire book, and usually does. The databases in this chapter are those that are simple enough to implement that you don't need to know about modules to use them.^[1]

^[1] To be sure, on some of these, the core of Perl will load a module for you. But you don't need to know anything about modules to use these databases.