sybperl-l Archive

From: "Sheree Hemphill" <sah18 at po dot cwru dot edu>
Subject: RE: very basic db connection question
Date: Feb 10 1999 1:11PM

this worked just fine for me!

one more question on this:
i'm not quite clear as to the difference between ct_sql and ct_execute.
when would you use one over the other (ie, why couldn't the "use database"
command be passed via ct_execute instead)?
thank you once again,
sheree


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-SYBPERL-L@listproc.net
> [mailto:owner-SYBPERL-L@listproc.net]On Behalf Of Michael Peppler
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 4:48 PM
> To: SybPerl Discussion List
> Subject: very basic db connection question
>
>
> >>>>> "Sheree" == Sheree Hemphill  writes:
>
> Sheree> Hello.  I am new to Sybperl, and I would like to use CTlib to
> Sheree> connect to a database.  I can only seem to find code examples
> Sheree> which connect to the Master database, but none which show how
> Sheree> to connect to a user-defined database.  Can someone give me an
> Sheree> example of the syntax for this?
>
> $dbh->ct_sql("use $database");
>
> Michael
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