Alexander Kotelnikov writes:

Ok, let me ask it in another way. Is there a good way to access databases, mysql in particular, from haskell program?

Use HDBC or Takusen. You can find them on hackage. HDBC is fairly usable, but you must write SQL queries by yourself or use some simple machinery to construct queries. I've written a bunch of helper functions to construct queries as strings, e.g.:

insert :: String -> [String] -> String -> String insert t = (++) . (" INSERT " ++) . (" INTO " ++) . (t ++) . (" (" ++) . (++ ") ") . join ", "

select :: [String] -> String -> String select = (++) . (" SELECT " ++) . join ", "

from :: [String] -> String -> String from = (++) . (" FROM " ++) . join ", "

In the end your query looks like:

query' (select ["max(cheque)"] . from ["history"] $ ";"

In this way you avoid typical errors which emerge when you write simple SQL query strings. Though you don't get true static typing. There are haskelldb and Takusen, which provide more elaborate way of connecting to RDBMS, they demand more investigation though.