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17.9. What You Should Know

1.What is a relational database?
2.What is MySQL?
3.Where can you get MySQL?
4.What is the MySQL client?
5.How do you set a password for MySQL?
6.What is the test database for?
7.What is the mysql database for?
8.What is SQL?
9.What is DBI and how can you get it?
10.What is DBI-MySQL?
11.What is a database handle?
12.What is a statement handle?
13.How does Perl query a database, and where does the result set end up?
14.When you prepare a query for Perl's prepare method, is it the same as when you made the query in the MySQL client?
15.How do you retrieve the result-set from a Perl program?
16.What is a cached query?
17.What is the purpose of placeholders?
18.How do you know if your database connection was successful?
19.How do you close the database from a Perl script?
20.Who is Tim Bunce?
21.Where can you get a good tutorial on Perl DBI?
22.How does CGI fit in with DBI?

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