Re: Perl to Oracle connectivity

yes true.
sorry, i forgot that, because i had the oracle client installed anyway.

you need files of the oracle client installation.

Ian Barwick wrote:

> > Brian Janko wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know about Perl to Oracle connectivity? Is it difficult to
> > > set
> > > up? Where might I find information about this topic?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Brian
> >
> Markus Stuhlpfarrer wrote:
>
> > no it is quite easy:
> > you only need to install the DBD (database driver) module
> > and then the DBI::ORACLE
> > both you get at www.cpan.org
> > never had any problems with it.
> > worked great
>
> You also need certain Oracle library files (can't recall offhand which)
> installed on the same machine as your Perl installation, otherwise
> DBD::Oracle won't run.
>
> IIRC correctly at least on Linux it should be possible to extract the
> relevant file(s) from the Oracle installation tar if you don't want to do a
> full Oracle installation.
>
> Ian Barwick
>
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  Received on Fri Jun 22 2001 - 04:00:12 CDT