Webmaster Forum / Perl / DBI Library / December 2006

The following is from http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.53/DBI.pm 
"Due to the potentially high memory cost and unknown risks of loading in an
unknown number of drivers that just happen to be installed on the system,
this method is nor recommended for general use. Use ...

Dear users and developers,
I'm pleased to announce the release of DBD::mysql 4.00! This is the long
awaited version 4.00 release which is the result of stabilising the
former 3.000N_n tree. As you'll notice, the version has been changed to

when i am trying to install DBD-Oracle i am getting the following error
please help my os is windows 2000
E:\trans\install_software\DBD-Oracle-1.18>perl makefile.pl
*** Warning: Colons in the current directory path

I had posted this question in CPAN forum but i was directed here for a
better answer.
Here is the problem I am facing. In the following piece of code I get a
customer name from the database and append a pound symbol to the customer

I am migrating an Oracle 9i to Oracle 10g database, and Perl 5.0.4 to
Perl 5.8.7 in Sun Solaris environment.
My old Perl/DBI script was able to connect via this method:
use DBI;

I'm expanding, and adding extra web servers to handle my load.  My Apache/mod_perl environment maintains a new connection for each process, and these processes seem to chew up a lot of server resources.
What is the normal acceptable way to maintain large numbers of simultaneous ...

Dear Tim Bunce,
I am in trouble to pass blob to stored function using
DBD::Oracle.
A stored function in oracle takes BLOB as input.  I

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From lurking around this mail list over the years,
I've seen numerous items relating to building
DBD-Oracle against a specific version of the Oracle
client software on *nix systems.  

Hey all
I've just started learning Class::DBI and love it so far, only thing is that I
primarily use mod_perl (ver 1 still) and so inherently want to try and have
persistent database connections where possible. I haven't put Class::DBI into

Hi, I'm new in this list...
I'm looking for the simplest way to read data stored in MSDE tables  
from Perl scripts running on Unix Tru64 (production machine) and -
possibly- OS X (development machine). Any idea?

Can anyone help me with this error?
# rpm -Uhv perl-DBD-Sybase-1.07-1.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
       /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/x86_64-pld-linux-thread-multi is

(Nothing surfaced in DBI.pm or the TODO list, nor the usual
net searches, so...)
Has there been any thought to extending the target for
trace() beyond simple filenames ? I'm looking for a means

Hey all,
I'd like to clear the 'essential' and any other cache'd values for an
object such that they must be re-queried from the database when
accessed.  I've looked over the cpan docs and the wiki, but I can't find

I'm having a bit of a problem with inserting data with carriage
returns into an MS Access database (via ODBC). If I remove the
carriage returns from my input it works fine, hence why I think there
is a problem. The error I receive is as follows: