WeBWorK::DB::Database - DBI interface to SQL databases.
my $dbh = WeBWorK::DB::Database->new($source, $username, $password, %params);Creates a DBI database connection. The $source parameter should be a DBI data source, i.e., a DSN. The $username and $password parameters are the username and password required to access the database. The additional options passed via %params may contain the database engine and character_set that will be used for all tables. If the database engine is not provided, then the default value of "MYISAM" will be used. If the character_set is not provided, then the default value of "latin1" will be used. If this database handle will be used for archiving or unarchiving courses then the additional options passed via %params must also contain mysql_path and mysqldump_path. In addition debug => 1 may be set in %params for development debugging purposes.