Webmaster Forum / Perl / DBI Library / November 2004

Tim wrote:

I wanted to point someone to the DBDI project, but didn't find anything
but
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040127225639.GF38394@dansat.data-plan.com
Are there plans for dbdi.perl.org or something like that?

I am looking for a bit of insight on best / common / intended
practices concerning prepared statements, as represented by DBI
statement handles ($sth).
Specifically, is it okay to have a long-lasting statement handle,

We recently moved from one Sun machine (running OS 2.9) to another.  Sybase was copied from one machine to the other, and I manually installed the /usr/local/perl (5.8.5) and sybperl-2.17.  Now a strange situation has been revealed:
While testing the Sybperl module for ...

hi all - I have an Access db and are using a perlscript to build a dynamic
html page used to create/update rows in the DB.
But for my selectboxes (quite a few), representing columns in the table, i
need them to contain only the items listed in the Row Source in the DB.

I have just successfully built Perl 5.8.5 and SybPerl 2.17_3 on Solaris 2.8,
with the following value for $SYBASE embedded into SybPerl:
/usr/global/opt/sybase
This is a link to /usr/global/opt/sybase1252, which is ASE 12.5.2 and comes

Tim,
I'm working on qualifying perl-5.8.3 and DBI-1.46 for a critical
application which uses DBI.  We've been running with perl-5.8.0 + DBI-1.35
for quite a while (color me conservative when my job's at stake).

I'm looking for a little help compiling SybPerl for MacOS X. I've tried
just about every combination of tweaks to CONFIG and CTlib/Makefile I can
think of (too numerous to list them all here) and I don't see any obvious
cc errors during "make". The problems show during "make ...

Michael,
I'm trying to install sybperl (2.17.3) and am getting the following
errors when I run make test:
make test

 http://homepage.eircom.net/~timbunce/DBI-1.46-rc1-20041114.tar.gz
=head2 Changes in DBI 1.46 (svn rev 581),    14th November 2004
 Fixed parsing bugs in DBI::SQL::Nano thanks to Jeff Zucker.
 Fixed a couple of bad links in docs thanks to Graham Barr.

$sth->execute_array({ ArrayTupleStatus => [] }, "FOO", [] );
...used to be a no-op and now is equvalent to...
$sth->execute ( "FOO", undef);
IMHO there is no good reason for this.  If I pass an empty array I

I apologize if this has been asked before, but I searched the archive and
haven't found a real answer.
Here's the situation:
I've been asked to look into setting up SybPerl (current release 2.17_3) in

Hi Tim,
belatedly congratulations for your Oracle award. Is it true that
it's endowed with a 1/2 year-long free Metalink access?
Attached is a small patch for DBI::DBD::Metadata. $VERSION is

Hi list,
I'm getting error upon running one of my scripts as below. This happens asap
the sql is sent to the ASE for execution via ct_sql() method.
The same script is working fine for another ASE and is failing for this ASE

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 00:12, Troy.A Johnson wrote: