Mixing DBI API calls "unsafely"... #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Finance::DBI 'unsafe'; my $db = Finance::DBI->Connect('Chart') or die "$!"; my $sql = "DROP DATABASE Finance"; $db->trace(1); # call a DBI method $db->Execute($sql); # call a DBIx::DWIW method __END__ The 'unsafe' attribute tells DBIx::DWIW to pass-thru calls Makes DWIW transparent to DBI users