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DBI equivelent of "use database"?
Posted by: Jeffrey Hunter
Date: May 09, 2007 09:14AM

I have two tables in two databases that are the same name and exactly the same structure. One table contains "active" data and one table contains "archive" data. Ideally, I'd like to issue a "use activedb;", run my query, issue "use archivedb;" and run it again.

I've seen a couple references to a method called selectdb from Mysql.pm, but I don't think it's defined in the DBI (or maybe just the version I am using). Besides, Mysql.pm's selectdb just did a disconnect/reconnect to switch the db.

My PlanB is to open two connections, one to the "activeDB" and one to the "archivedb", but selecting the db seems like a better method. Has anybody ever done this using straight DBI?

Perl: 5.8.2
MySQL: 5.0.27



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2007 09:27AM by Jeffrey Hunter.

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