As most of you probably do, I have modest O'Reilly library on my shelf. I waited for months for this book to ship. I was very excited to finally get a grasp on using the MySQL engine via PERL.

I was pretty disappointed once I got it though. The SQL reference is ok, but not great. The PERL examples are cryptic and poorly explained. And the coverage of using the Mysql.pm (instead of the generic DBI.pm) is crappy at best.

I found far more useful information at http://www.mysql.com and at http://www.cpan.org. Don't waste your time and money on this one. Go to the CPAN and read up on Mysql.pm, and pick up a basic SQL reference book if you need it.

Sorry, O'Reilly... a swing and a miss!