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List all Available DBI Drivers and Data Sources

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Submitted on: 4/23/2003 11:38:19 PM
By: Randy McCleary 
Level: Beginner
User Rating: Unrated
Compatibility: 5.0 (all versions)
Views: 8242
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     This is just a simple script to display all the available DBI drivers you have available along with all the data sources for each. Take a look at the Screen Shot to see what the output looks like. I tested this script out with Active Perl 5.8.0.606 on a Win2K Server.

 
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=**************************************
= Name: List all Available DBI Drivers and Data Sources
= Description:This is just a simple script to display all the available DBI drivers you have available along with all the data sources for each. Take a look at the Screen Shot to see what the output looks like. I tested this script out with Active Perl 5.8.0.606 on a Win2K Server.
= By: Randy McCleary
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#############################################
## Simple script that prints out a list of all
## available DBI drivers, and datasource for
## each driver.
#############################################
use DBI;
use CGI qw(:standard);
	
############################################# 
## Get the DBI installed available drivers
#############################################
my @drivers = DBI->available_drivers();
 
die "No drivers found!\n" unless @drivers; 
print header; 
	
#############################################
## Loop through the available drivers and list
## the data sources for each one
#############################################
foreach my $driver ( @drivers ) {
 print "<b>Driver:</b> <font color=\"red\">$driver</font><br>\n";
 my @dataSources = DBI->data_sources( $driver );
 
 ###########################################
 ## Loop through the Data Sources
 ###########################################
 foreach my $dataSource ( @dataSources ) {
print " ";
print "<b>Data Source is</b>";
print "<font color=\"blue\">$dataSource</font><br>\n";
 }
 print "\n";
}
 
exit;
	
	
	
	


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