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RE: ORA-911 during DBD::Oracle prepare

From: Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:19:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D5DCD.20031106141925@fatcity.com>


I *knew* it had to be something silly like that! That's what I get for using cut-and-paste. :)

Thanks!
Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
rjesse_at_qtiworld.com                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Gano [mailto:Alan.Gano_at_Banfield.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:49 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: ORA-911 during DBD::Oracle prepare
>
>
> Rich!
>
> Take the ending semi-colon off. It's not SQL, but a
> end-of-statment flag to
> Sqlplus, which you are not using.
>
> Alan.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:29 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hey all,
>
> I'm trying to get a simple query running in Perl 5.6.1, DBI 1.30,
> DBD::Oracle 1.14, Oracle 8.1.7 on HPUX 11.0 talking to a
> 9.2.0.4 RAC DB on
> Linux (whew!). Here's the pertinent part of the code:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use strict;
> use DBI;
> use DBD::Oracle qw(:ora_types);
>
> my ($dbh, $sth);
>
> $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:mysid","myuser","mypass");
>
> $sth = $dbh->prepare(q{
> SELECT machine, program, SYS_CONTEXT(:userenv, :ipaddress),
> SYS_CONTEXT(:userenv, :osuser)
> FROM v$session VS;
> });
>
> At this point, I get an "ORA-911: invalid character" on the
> prepare. I
> thought perhaps the "$" was hosing me in "v$session", so I
> tried escaping it
> to "v\$session" (along with the underscores and parens) and using "qq"
> instead of "q", but to no avail.
>
> I knew I shouldn't have unsub'd from the DBI mailing list...
>
> Anyone?
> TIA,
> Rich

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