Re: Perl - Newbie question

From: <dbaplusplus_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 7 Jun 2006 18:31:58 -0700
Message-ID: <1149730318.223808.99970@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:05:46 -0700, dbaplusplus wrote:
>
> >
> > How do I do same in Perl. I did search on Google but gives the always
> > found information on DBI interface, but not on what I am looking for.
>
>
> I have a tutorial on my page which shows how to execute PL/SQL from DBI.
> Alternatively, you can always execute using system(). The command
> perldoc -f system will tell you how to execute sqlplus from within the
> Perl interpreter. If my question is not too brazen, why would you want
> to call sqlplus, when DBI is much more convenient and can be used for
> programming, in contrast with sqlplus internal variables?
>
> --
> http://www.mgogala.com

Thanks. Does not like DBI and Oracle driver for DBI are part of Oracle install. I am using Oracle 9.2.0.5 on UNIX. I will hav eto download them from cpan. Received on Wed Jun 07 2006 - 20:31:58 CDT