Re: perl and oracle

In article <34430ACC.1DE_at_techiesinc.com>, Leslie_B_DreyerKalra <lbd_at_techiesinc.com> wrote:
>John-Eric Langdale wrote:
>>
>> I hope someone can help?
>> I am in dire need of interfaceing perl and oracle on NT4.0 platform...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> j-e
>
>Totally! See DBI with DBD-Oracle, downloadable from www.perl.com/CPAN/.
>For info on DBI, see www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI/.
>
>It's free. DBI is known to work on NT, but DBD-Oracle is not,

BZZZT :-) DBD::Oracle works under NT - (Tim Bunce says so :-)! He is also responsible for the DBD::ODBC module which (contrary to popular belief) works under UNIX as well as NT. I know this because he developed it under unix... :-)

>Check out the web site, plus there's a dbi-users mailing list.

Good advice.

The dbi-users mailing list is THE place to get first rate advice and support. Mailing Tim direct is not recommended as a first step - he gets so much email that many messages are simply forwarded to dbi-users. Also there are many system specifc hints files now available for DBD::Oracle. If you are not a reader and ask an FAQ in dbi-users you will get the RTFM answer - so save yourself some embarassment and read the hints files.

<PLUG>
Another option for those requiring commercial support is the perl clinic as http://www.perl.co.uk/tpc/ See the back page of TPJ - you do get TPJ don't you? :-) </PLUG>

>Have fun with it!
 

:-)

Jacqui

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