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Storing Methods With Perl
By Alex Osipov
LAST EDITED: Tuesday, August 6, 2002 0:12 AM

Table of Contents:

Section 1 - Common ways of storing data and retrieving data
Section 2 - Flat Files
Section 3 - SQL
Section 4 - Other Methods

Section 1 - Common ways of storing data and retrieving data:

Many new people to Perl and CGI often stick purely to flat file databases as ways of storing data. In this article I will try to focus on the ways, advantages and disadvantages of using flat files and other alternative ways of storing, retrieving, and modifying data.

Perl as a highly dynamic language offers a number of different ways of storing and retrieving data. Some of the most common ones being flat files and SQL. While flat-files offer a fast and efficient way to storing relatively small amounts of data, different SQL servers can handle incredibly amounts of data, yet remaining incredibly efficient.

Section 2 : Flat Files »

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