Posts by David Perry

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 which many people explain better than I could. One of those reasons is that — thanks to the magic of SQLite — it lets us write unit test scripts, and other quick prototyping code, 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?