This book covers managing and accessing SQL servers. Both the DBI and the ODBC interfaces are covered well across a variety of back-end databases, such as MySQL, Sybase and MS SQL Server. Specific tasks covered include accessing record sets, and creating and manipulating databases, as well as monitoring databases and their server. Perl modules for sending and receiving e-mail are covered, as is a discussion on how much mail is too much for a script to send. The most useful part of this section is the example code that will help you attempt to trace the originator of spam e-mail.
Every section includes logging and monitoring as well as management tasks.
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