Webmaster Forum / Perl / DBI Library / October 2004

You can decide whether or not it is a good idea for you to follow
suit, but for the next release of DBD::Informix, the documented email
contact point is going to be dbd.informix@gmail.com.  I'd use a dash
if Gmail allowed it, but they don't -- alphanumerics and dots are all

Yes, another release candidate!
I think I've finally got to the bottom of the character set issues.
(Thanks in part to Lincoln providing me with an account on a system
with several test databases with different combinations of CHAR and

I just wanted to ask if someone is already using sybperl (especially the
Sybase Open Client Libraries and DBD::Sybase) with Sybase ASE.
Currently I'm using DBD::ASAny but I'd really like to execute stored
procedures, because some things are really hard to express with plain SQL.

DBD::Sybase 1.04_10 is now available on CPAN and at
http://www.peppler.org/downloads. This version should fix various
problems with $sth->finish() when syb_flush_finish is enabled.
I'm getting close to a 1.05 release, so if you have a chance to download

Compiling DBD::Oracle with Borland C++ 5.5, I have a bunch of warnings:
  Warning W8065 ...: Call to function 'OCI...' with no prototype in function
because oci.h includes the K&R headers:
  #if defined(__STDC__) || defined(__cplusplus)

Thanks to Jeff Urlwin there are now PPDs for DBD::Sybase available from
http://ftp.esoftmatic.com/DBI/. The build is for ActivePerl 5.8.4, and
was built with Sybase's 12.5.1 client libraries. If you don't have the
12.5.1 libs you can get them with the 12.5.2 developer edition of ASE