Web developers often need ways of speeding up the development process, without spending thousands of dollars for software. Here's how to build an easy to use flat-file database in Perl and access it via a web page.
This article focuses on setting up MySQL and understanding its various management complexities. Shows how to create a MySQL database and populate a table with data.
For those who don't want to get tied up with a relational database and all the supporting software needed, yet still need to store a dataset to disk for future use, this tutorial provides several Perl DBM, or database management, solutions which have much less overheard than DBI and are a quick way to store and use Perl data structures to and from disk.