Author: David Perry

Two Database Engines, One Table

Our flagship tool, Support Track, is steadily migrating over to use DBIx::Class to read and manipulate our databases. This is a very useful tool, for many reasons that can be better explained by others. One of these reasons is that, thanks to the magic of SQLite, it lets us write unit test scripts, and other quick prototyping codes, without needing to set up a heavy database server to run against. However, Support Track is powered by Oracle, not SQLite, and while DBIx::Class abstracts most of the differences out of our code, it can’t completely eliminate them. How do we overcome the syntactic differences?

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