I'll tell you my experience. I have a large database (close to 700 000 records now) and the design remained as good as unchanged over more than a decade. I have set up all the usual DBIx::Class classes and getting the info I need out of the database and into LaTeX, Excel, R, ... is so easy with all the standard methods of DBIx::Class applied to my classes. I don't even have to enter passwords and such. Chaining its objects (in other words apply an SQL query to the result of a previous SQL-query) is a real time-saver. For hundreds of "one off" scripts, the boilerplate to connect, set-up, select and loop through the query results almost entirely disappears.

And once you have to work with many-to-many relationships, you will really appreciate all the convenience DBIx::Class gives you.

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