sybperl-l Archive

From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic at iskon dot hr>
Subject: Re: Arguments to SQL statements in Ctlib
Date: Nov 16 1999 6:21AM

Michael Peppler  writes:

>  > >  > The ? syntax is borrowed from Perl DBI and is not required, but it
>  > >  > should make my meaning clear.
>  > > 
>  > > No, that isn't supported.
>  > 
>  > But I assume your DBI module implements it (it's required by the
>  > spec)

Uh, this was also a question.  :-)

>  > -- should I use that instead?
> 
> That's up to you - it depends on what you want to do, and how you
> like to code. Me I prefer the Sybase::* modules, because I'm so used
> to the API, and the API is very close to the "real" Sybase API,
> which makes it easy to extend or to make it do things like RPC
> calls, etc.

I've never used Sybase, and I don't need the added functionality.  I
think I'll give DBI a try.

Thanks for your help.