Perl accesses information held in relational databases through the DBI module, with additional modules (known as DBD modules) used to provide the specific code for individual database products such as MySQL. This module covers the sourcing and downloading of the DBI and DBD modules, and the use of DBI from within Perl. You don't use DBD directly, which ensures that your Perl code is very portable.

This topic is presented on public courses MySQL, Perl Programming, Perl for Larger Projects

aclog2table	Set up database for web access log records
aggy	Connecting Perl to a MySQL database
dbdhash.pm	Tie a Perl hash to a MySQL table through DBI
edbi	Example using many database access methods from DBI
fifthdbi	Perl DBI - display contents of MySQL table
firstdbi	Simple Perl DBI Query
hellosql	Accessing and SQL database with DBI and DBD modules
orange.pl	DBI used in a CGI script as a GUI to a table
sqlping	Using DBI and DBD to establish a connection and list available tables
tie_main	Exercise - main program to die hash to database
trains.sql	Data to create and populate train table for other examples
traintimes	Connect to an SQL database of train times

DBI module missing
Connecting to MySQL over an unreliable network
Perl Database
Is this a hash in an SQL insert statement