I am working on quite a big project using Perl and MS SQL, and last Monday I ran into an issue. Because most of the week I was very busy, I decided to write down the problem and solution (or better: solutions) today.
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Steven, that module uses the TinyURL web site. Since I am storing quite a lot of URLs that's not really an option.
Also I prefer to have the URL in readable (as in understandable) format in the database.
In fact the table is a bit like TinyURL in that I map URLIDs to the longer URL value.
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How about shortening the URL a la tinyurl?
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