Re: PL/SQL: Operating system variables???

From: Jacqui Caren <Jacqui.Caren_at_ig.co.uk>
Date: 1997/08/28
Message-ID: <EFMF73.49L_at_ig.co.uk>#1/1

emailed and posted to cdo.tools only!

In article <34035916.6B6E_at_cisco.com>, Stephen Kraus <skraus_at_cisco.com> wrote:
>Michael,
>
>You may also want to consider using oraperl for this kind of operation
>(checking operating system environment variables).

Apologies for being a wee bit pedantic but use of oraperl (the perl4 extension) is deprecated.
Many still end up searching for "oraperl" and find an old copy of the perl4 add-on...
The DBI interface with the DBD::Oracle driver provides an oraperl emulation interface. Usually the only change required to convert from the last oraperl interface is addition of the following line

        use Oraperl;

Note that perl4 (oraperl) is no longer supported and a request for assistance will usually result in a "fixed in perl5" reply. Support is availabel via the dbi-users email DL and commercial support is provided by ourselevs via www.perl.co.uk/tpc/ for perl, Oraperl, the DBI interface and DBD::Oracle drivers.

Added Value

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Also, the DBI interface via the DBD::Oracle driver provides various value added facilities such as being able to bind variables to PL/SQL procedures etc (within the limitions of the OCI interface).

See www.hermitica.com for information about DBI and Oraperl. Links to this site and other perl resources such as CPAN are available via www.perl.com/perl or www.perl.co.uk.

I hope this helps.

        Jacqui

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Received on Thu Aug 28 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST