The first step in putting Perl into the database is to get the right setup for Perl. Perl by default is not threadsafe, and MySQL, on the other hand, uses a thread for each user connection. So for ...

I can do this with Perl, of course, using the DBI and DBD::mysql modules, hand-crafting program code to send the query to the database. I then could post-process the results with more code, ...