Alzabo::BackCompat 0.8901

Alzabo::BackCompat is a Perl module that can convert old data structures.

This module is used to magically convert schemas with an older data structure to the latest format.

Alzabo is a two-fold program. Its first function is as a data modelling tool. Through either a schema creation interface or a custom perl program, you can create a set of schema, table, column, etc. objects that represent your data model. Alzabo is also capable of reverse engineering an existing data model.

Its second function is as a RDBMS to object mapping system. Once you have created a schema, you can use the Alzabo::Runtime::Table and Alzabo::Runtime::Row classes to access its data. These classes offer a high level interface to common operations such as SQL SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE commands.

To take it a step further, you could then aggregate a set of rows from different tables into a larger container object which could understand the logical relationship between these tables. The Alzabo::MethodMaker module can be very helpful in this regard.