1DBD::Mem(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation DBD::Mem(3)
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6 DBD::Mem - a DBI driver for Mem & MLMem files
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9 use DBI;
10 $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Mem:', undef, undef, {});
11 $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Mem:', undef, undef, {RaiseError => 1});
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15 $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:Mem(RaiseError=1):');
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17 and other variations on connect() as shown in the DBI docs and
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20 Use standard DBI prepare, execute, fetch, placeholders, etc., see
21 "QUICK START" for an example.
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24 DBD::Mem is a database management system that works right out of the
25 box. If you have a standard installation of Perl and DBI you can begin
26 creating, accessing, and modifying simple database tables without any
27 further modules. You can add other modules (e.g., SQL::Statement) for
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30 DBD::Mem doesn't store any data persistently - all data has the
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35 Bundling "DBD::Mem" with DBI will allow us further compatibility checks
36 of DBI::DBD::SqlEngine beyond the capabilities of DBD::File and
37 DBD::DBM. This will ensure DBI provided basis for drivers like
38 DBD::AnyData2 or DBD::Amazon are better prepared and tested for not-
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42 There're no new meta data introduced by "DBD::Mem". See "Metadata" in
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46 If you need help installing or using DBD::Mem, please write to the DBI
47 users mailing list at <mailto:dbi-users@perl.org> or to the
48 comp.lang.perl.modules newsgroup on usenet. I cannot always answer
49 every question quickly but there are many on the mailing list or in the
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52 DBD developers for DBD's which rely on DBI::DBD::SqlEngine or DBD::Mem
53 or use one of them as an example are suggested to join the DBI
54 developers mailing list at <mailto:dbi-dev@perl.org> and strongly
55 encouraged to join our IRC channel at <irc://irc.perl.org/dbi>.
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57 If you have suggestions, ideas for improvements, or bugs to report,
58 please report a bug as described in DBI. Do not mail any of the authors
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61 When reporting bugs, please send the output of
62 "$dbh->mem_versions($table)" for a table that exhibits the bug and as
63 small a sample as you can make of the code that produces the bug. And
64 of course, patches are welcome, too :-).
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66 If you need enhancements quickly, you can get commercial support as
67 described at <http://dbi.perl.org/support/> or you can contact Jens
68 Rehsack at rehsack@cpan.org for commercial support.
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71 This module is written by Jens Rehsack < rehsack AT cpan.org >.
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73 Copyright (c) 2016- by Jens Rehsack, all rights reserved.
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75 You may freely distribute and/or modify this module under the terms of
76 either the GNU General Public License (GPL) or the Artistic License, as
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80 DBI for the Database interface of the Perl Programming Language.
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82 SQL::Statement and DBI::SQL::Nano for the available SQL engines.
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84 SQL::Statement::RAM where the implementation is shamelessly stolen from
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87 DBD::SQLite using "dbname=:memory:" for an incredible fast in-memory
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