Re: How to use perl dbi to create a database

http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.611/DBI.pm#data_sources

This is how you can check for existence of a database.

- Ashish

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Sharma, Sumit <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello,
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> I am trying to use Perl to identify if a given database exists or not
> and if it doesn't create the database and then connect to it.
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> Is there any way using Perl DBI to first identify whether a given
> database exists or not if it doesn't create the database?
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> Sumit
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