History
In collaboration with others, Tim Bunce began specifying DBI in 1992. As of 2010 the Perl community maintains DBI as a CPAN module in accordance with the open source model. DBD (DataBase Driver) modules serve as plug-ins to DBI, allowing programmers to use near-database-independent SQL code in their applications. Programmers can also use the DBI and DBD modules indirectly using one of the object-relational mappers available for Perl, such as DBIx::Class, for more database-independent code with no need to write SQL.
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