DBI and DBD modules for mysql

This question is addressed particularly to hosts. Do you find that scripts accessing mysql databases through perl a security risk? I am getting annoyed since I am finding that there are many hosts that I've signed up for that don't have the proper DBI, DBD::mysql modules installed.

Is there a reason why they don't have these modules installed? When I look for a host, included in their plans are scripting languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, and then there's Mysql.. I understand that a lot of people use PHP with mysql, however I prefer to work with perl and would rather not rewrite my perl scripts that I have already written. I really expected that by default that there would be perl support for mysql, but apparently this hasn't been the case for many hosts. Anyone know the reason??

 

 

 

 

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