This book is extremely useful and very well written.

I purchased it in the morning and by the same night had converted a flat file application to mysql.

The use of CGI in the examples in chapter 10 tend to obscure the DBI code, but the they are useful none the less.

There seems to be a problem with the example on page 386, DBI::fetchrow_hashref. If one really wants the field namesin the array @field_names as the comments indicate,

the line:

my %row1 = $mytable_output->fetchrow_hashref;

should read:

my %row1 = %{$mytable_output->fetchrow_hashref};

Again, thanks for a very nice manual.