perl.com has an overview of using DBI to access relational databases from Perl. Readers of both of my books would probably find this article useful.
I wonder how much Swatch paid CNN to put this stupid crap on their Web site, and include a link to it from the top of the home page. The thing I hate most about the Internet (it’s so hard to pick one thing), is that most advertising-based sites have no self respect whatsoever when it comes to selling out to sponsors.
Amazon.com has finally applied a discount to my SQL book, 30%. By the way, the book description on the site is incredibly old. My publisher said they were going to update the description to one that actually conforms to the contents of the book, but they haven’t yet.