Webmaster Forum / Perl / DBI Library / August 2004

Does anybody have a clue on how to bind oracle sequences.
Background:
Due to the large amount of data to be loaded into our oracle9i db by our
applications, a bulk-load software would have been our first choice to

I have a question on what kind of Makefile.PL change is required to
accomplish something simple, but I didn't find the answer in the
MakeMaker documentation.
P.S. While the example below isn't one, several of my affected

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Do any databases support CREATE TABLE statement with fields
having a DEFAULT clause without a NOT NULL?
    CREATE TABLE foo (
       bar INTEGER,

This is an extract of test code of what I´m doing:
use Carp;
use DBI;
use Data::Dumper;

HP-UX 11i (11.11) + perl-5.8.5-dor + DBI-1.43 + DBD-CSV-0.21
Failed Test     Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/40bindparam.t               28    1   3.57%  14

Could someone help me explain with Sybase TDS vs CT - Library performance
tks
Anton

I have a script as below that I'm trying to execute. I want to do a select *
from one table and insert into another table without writing the data to a
flat file. When I execute the script, I get error as below
$ x.pl  

To whomever was at OSCON and attended the DBI Driver Developers BoF,
I would appreciate it if some notes or a summary of goings-on at that
event could be posted to this list.  This would help people such as
myself who weren't there can know what happened.  If there isn't much

All,
We're trying to override the DBI->connect() method for DBD::DB2 to
support longer database names.
Some background:

Er, this is not exactly virgin territory here.  Virtually every common

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 22:45:46 -0700, Dean Arnold wrote:

So?  DBI isn't supposed to be SQL, it's supposed to be a database

This program causes a segfault:
   use Sybase::DBlib;
   $Db_fde_bcphdl = new Sybase::DBlib
     'user', 'pass', 'SERVER', 'foo';

Hi list
Command line script test2-cgi works fine but when I try from the browser it is giving the following error
DBI connect('db1','report',...) failed: Error while trying to retrieve text for error ORA-12154 (DBD ERROR: OCIServerAttach) at /home/report/www/cgi-bin/test2-cgi line ...

I think the issues with sybperl 2.17 tests failing/core dumping (and
similar problems with the test DBD::Sybase 1.04.x releases) has to do
with the BLK code.
The 2_ct_xblk.t test sends a lot of bad data to the BLK routines to make