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Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents
Course outline
Assumed knowledge
Module objectives
Platform and version details
The course notes
Other materials

Welcome to Netizen's Database Programming with Perl training course.This is a one-day course in which you will learn how to writedatabase-backed websites using Perl and and the powerful DBI module.

Course outline

  • About databases

  • Text based ("flat file") databases

  • Relational databases

  • Tables and relationships

  • Structured Query Language (SQL)

  • MySQL and other database servers

  • Features of MySQL

  • Getting MySQL

  • Setting up MySQL databases

  • The MySQL client

  • The DBI and DBD modules

  • What is DBI?

  • DBI syntax

  • DBI exercises

  • Extended exercises

  • References (optional topic)

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