Re: minimum client installation for Perl::DBI?

Jens Grivolla <j-news2003-04_at_grivolla.de> writes:

> I have an Oracle 9i DB running on one server and just want to query it
> using Perl from a different machine. Basically, the client machine
> only needs to be able to send SQL queries over the network and receive
> the answers.
>
> Unfortunately, it seems that the client still needs an Oracle
> installation (whatever for) and I don't have much harddisk space.
> Therefore I am wondering: what is the minimum I need on my (Linux)
> client, and how do I best get it installed?

I would do a client installation on your Linux box although you only need the oci library and the header so that you can compile the PERL DBD::Oracle package. The client installation provide you too other useful programs such as tnsping and sqlplus. For testing it might be helpful. In your case I would get from http://otn.oracle.com the Oracle 8.1.7 distribution. As far as I know the resources for Oracle 8.1.7 are not so huge. I am running a Oracle 8.1.7 database on a 6 year old Dell Dimension Box and it really works fine. For Oracle 9.2.0 Client installation you need at minimum 256 MB. But works fine too.

Harald Received on Mon Apr 14 2003 - 06:39:33 CDT