DBD::Sponge - Create a DBI statement handle from Perl data my $sponge = DBI->connect("dbi:Sponge:","","",{ RaiseError => 1 }); my $sth = $sponge->prepare($statement, { rows => $data, NAME => $names, %attr } ); DBD::Sponge is useful for making a Perl data structure accessible through a standard DBI statement handle. This may be useful to DBD module authors who need to transform data in this way.

connect()
my $sponge = DBI->connect("dbi:Sponge:","","",{ RaiseError => 1 }); Here's a sample syntax for creating a database handle for the Sponge driver. No username and password are needed.

prepare()
my $sth = $sponge->prepare($statement, { rows => $data, NAME => $names, %attr } ); The $statement here is an arbitrary statement or name you want to provide as identity of your data. If you're using DBI::Profile it will appear in the profile data. Generally it's expected that you are preparing a statement handle as if a "select" statement happened. $data is a reference to the data you are providing, given as an array of arrays. $names is a reference an array of column names for the $data you are providing. The number and order should match the number and ordering of the $data columns. %attr is a hash of other standard DBI attributes that you might pass to a prepare statement. Currently only NAME, TYPE, and PRECISION are supported. Using this module to prepare INSERT-like statements is not currently documented. This module is Copyright (c) 2003 Tim Bunce Documentation initially written by Mark Stosberg The DBD::Sponge module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. In particular permission is granted to Tim Bunce for distributing this as a part of the DBI. DBI