Re: Oracle9i and Perl.

From: Rene Nyffenegger <rene.nyffenegger_at_gmx.ch>
Date: 28 Feb 2003 16:41:14 GMT
Message-ID: <b3o3fa$1nta6p$1@ID-82536.news.dfncis.de>

>
> "George Barbour" <gbarbour_at_csc.com> wrote in message
> news:3e5f3f37$1_at_baen1673807.greenlnk.net...

>> Oracle9i 9.2.0.1.0.
>> Win NT 4.0
>> I am working through 'Perl for DBA's' by Duncan and Still.
>> Has anybody used the DBD::Oracle Perl Module to access an Oracle9i

> database?

>> or managed to install DBD without the 'ppm' module, which doesn't seem to

> be

>> included in the install.
>>
>> George Barbour.

> Hi,
> all the binary DBD modules I know are linked with the 8i client libs, which
> are not compatible to the 9i libs. You would need to recompile the DBD
> modules with the 9i libs. Another solution would be to use a small 8i client
> installation in parallel to the 9i rdbms.

I am using the precompiled DBD DBI of Activastate together with the Activastate build of perl and have no problem on a 9i client and 9i server. Just make sure you use Release 5.6 instead of 5.8 of Perl.

Rene Nyffenegger

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