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Well! At this point the number of uses for the database that you're coming up with may make you realize that you could be getting a little carried away. After pausing to come back down to earth, you start asking some practical questions:
Isn't this a little ambitious? Won't it be a lot of work to set this up? Anything's easier when you're just thinking about it and not doing it, of course, and I won't pretend that all of this will be trivial to implement. Nevertheless, you'll have done everything we've just outlined by the end of this book. Just keep one thing in mind: It's not necessary to do everything all at once. We'll break the job into pieces and tackle it a piece at a time.
Can MySQL do all these things? No it can't, at least not by itself. For example, MySQL has no direct Web-programming facilities. But even though MySQL alone cannot do everything we've discussed, you can combine MySQL with other tools that work with it to complement and extend its capabilities.
We'll use the Perl scripting language and the DBI (database interface) Perl module to write scripts that access MySQL databases. Perl has excellent text-processing capabilities that allow for manipulation of query results in a highly flexible manner to produce output in a variety of formats. For example, we can use Perl to generate the directory in Rich Text Format (RTF), a format that can be read by all kinds of word processors.
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