Perl DBI without accessing the database

Question

I\'m creating a set of SQL INSERT statements for a database that doesn\'t exist yet, and I\'m saving them to file.

How can I use Perl\'s powerful DBI m

Answer 1

According to perl -MDBI -E 'say join(q{,},DBI->available_drivers);' in clean Debian chroot with only DBI (package "libdbi-perl") installed the following drivers are available right away:

DBM,ExampleP,File,Gofer,Proxy,Sponge

The minimum DBI connect statement that works for me is

my $dbh=DBI->connect("DBI:DRIVER:");  # DRIVER is one of [DBM,File,ExampleP,Sponge,mysql,SQLite]

That is enough to use $dbh->quote() with no database whatsoever.

DBM and File escape q{'} as q{\'} ("mysql" style);
ExampleP and Sponge escape: q{'} as q{''} ("SQLite" style).