=encoding utf8

=head1 NAME 

DBIx::Skinny::Manual::EN - DBIx::Skinny Manual (English)

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Why I made DBIx::Skinny.

=head1 MOTIVATION

There are many OR mappers for Perl - L<Class::DBI>, L<DBIx::Class>, L<Data::ObjectDriver>, L<Data::Model>, L<Rose::DB::Object>, L<DBIx::DataModel>, etc.

The OR mappers listed here basically use OO methods based on SQL queries to assemble a database result.

Various objects are the result.

L<Class::DBI> and L<DBIx::Class> have been widely used. L<DBIx::Class> is an especially powerful OR mapper but also a bit heavyweight and somewhat slow.

=head2 Design Objectives

The main objectives of L<DBIx::Skinny> are:

=head3 Inflate when dealing with utf8 issues

=head3 Handle common OR operations 

=head3 Intuitive select statements

=head3 Smaller code base.


=head1 Feedback

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