However, most of the procedures described in this document are very basic, and are unlikely to be operating system dependent. For more information about DBI, see Alligator Descartes' DBI pages. The DBI article from The Perl Journal is particularly helpful . The DBI specification is also available online. I also recommend Jeffery Baker's Perl DBI examples .
Procedures are in rough alphabetical order, by keyword.
You must tell Perl to use the DBI module before these statements appear. This example is a statement that will retrieve the rows in a table called reference .