disappointed.. (Score 1)

First, I'd like to say that DBI itself is very cool, and I find it really useful.

I read the book as soon as it came out several weeks ago; I was anticipating its release very much. I skimmed most of it, though, as it's kinda lightweight. The first 50 pages deal with flatfiles.. blah. Out of 330 pages, the last 140 of them are appendix -- which is the perldoc pages that you can get a more up-to-date version (and quicker access) of online.

Also, I think it's weird that they'd spend 50 pages on (non-DBI) flatfiles, then only like 125 (excluding appendix) on DBI.

I use DBI/MySQL at work for CGI/database interfacing. I haven't looked at the book for weeks, and it's on the bottom of my pile of books. Since I gave such a bad review myself, I thought I'd find some links to look at. People already mentioned Mark-Jason Dominus' tutorial, which I agree is a nice intro. I tried not to repeat links others gave:

• Interview with the authors
• DBI-users archive
• Old DBI-users archive, but w/index
• Positive review by perl.org (duh..)

Also, if you do web-database stuff, check out Apache::DBI, which does the obvious. Okay, sorry to be so negative.