The purpose of DBIx::Browse is to handle the browsing of relational tables. DBIx::Browse transparently translates SELECTs, UPDATEs, DELETEs and INSERTs from the desired "human view" to the values needed for the ta- ble. This is the case when you have related tables (1 to n) where the detail table has a reference (FOREIGN KEY) to a generic table (i.e. Customers and Bills) with some index (tipically an integer). WWW: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBIx-Browse Philip M. Gollucci