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A more complex tool (or possibly custom written code) could use a longer more complex query with multiple table joins to return a result set which can then be mapped into an object. So now your class-fields map to columns in multiple tables.

This may be a dumb question, but how is this different from the business object mapping that I referred to?

The benefits of CDBI and similar tools (like Hibernate for Java) is that they do a lot of work for you, but the tradeoff is that the work is generally mediocre. In the places where mediocre is good enough, then it would be foolish to do that work by hand. (The other app in my office uses Hibernate, specifically for that reason.)

But, in those places where you need to write custom code to map your objects (which are presumably business-oriented) to the database (which is presumably storage-oriented), you don't have an OO->Relational tools gain.

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In reply to Re^3: Class::DBI not intuitive by dragonchild
in thread Class::DBI not intuitive by Jaap

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