MYSQL DBI on an XP

I'm using XP on a Compaq V2000.

Goal to set up a desktop/laptop test simulator for MySQL database 
software.

The difficult part was finding MySQL support for DBI (Perl).

ActivePerl comes with the MySQLite module. ActiveState offers a tremendous 
opportunity porting Perl to Windows, but as of yet the MySQL module seems 
to have taken on a lower priority. Fortunately U of Winnipeg has produced 
a marvelous module for XP (win32) and from what I've read I don't believe 
they've developed one, yet for Vista.

So if you're like me, you've successfully installed Apache and ActivePerl, 
but you didn't get around to installing the MySQL module. ActivePerl comes 
with PPM. I used the command line:

ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/DBD-mysql.ppd

ppm extracted and installed the mysql module in my Perl/site directory and 
added html web pages allowing DBI to access the MySQL on my XP laptop 
system. 

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