Ima::DBI attempts to organize and facilitate caching and more efficient use of database connections and statement handles. One of the things I always found annoying about writing large programs with DBI was making sure that I didn't have duplicate database handles open. I was also annoyed by the somewhat wasteful nature of the prepare/execute/finish route I'd tend to go through in my subroutines. The new DBI->connect_cached and DBI->prepare_cached helped alot, but I still had to throw around global datasource, username and password information. So, after a while I grew a small library of DBI helper routines and techniques. Ima::DBI is the culmination of all this, put into a nice(?), clean(?) class to be inherited from.
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