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As part of getting ready for GSoC I've been reading about perl's DBI (database interface) module, which lets you interact with an SQL database through a perl script, rather than typing SQL into a terminal. There's a good little intro to it in Chapter 14 of the freely available Perl Cookbook from O'Reilly. (Free ebooks are one of my favourite things ever).

This script shows the simplest possible example of using DBI:

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