DBIx-BlackBox DBIx::BlackBox - access database with stored procedures only SYNOPSIS DBIx::BlackBox provides access to database using stored procedures only (the only SQL command available is *exec*). That allows to treat your database as a black box into which only the database administrator provides access by stored procedures. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install Sybase and FreeTDS INSTALLATION Following installation steps were tested with both Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. unixODBC Install unixODBC from your system packages or download sources from . FreeTDS Download dev release of FreeTDS from (tested with freetds-0.83.dev.20100122). ./configure --with-unixodbc=/usr/local/ \ --with-tdsver=8.0 --prefix=/usr/local/freetds make sudo make install Edit /usr/local/freetds/etc/freetds.conf and specify access to your database. ... [sqlserver] host = 1.2.3.4 port = 1433 tds version = 8.0 DBD::Sybase Install DBD::Sybase. SYBASE=/usr/local/freetds perl Makefile.PL make sudo make install If you want to test DBD::Sybase most likely you would need to modify tests that come with the module (some queries in test files will not work with MS SQL Server). SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc DBIx::BlackBox You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=DBIx-BlackBox AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/DBIx-BlackBox CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/DBIx-BlackBox Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBIx-BlackBox/ AUTHOR Alex J. G. Burzyński, LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright 2010 Alex J. G. Burzyński. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.