What drives the design of the DBI?

• Goals of the DBI

  • Be simple to use for simple applications
  • Have sufficient flexibility to accommodate unusual functionality and non-SQL databases
  • Conform to applicable standards (ODBC etc.)
  • Enable the creation of database-independent Perl scripts without being limited to the lowest functionality
  • Be free with open source code

• A ‘higher-level’ interface than ODBC/JDBC

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