Webmaster Forum / Perl / DBI Library / April 2007

Hi, I am trying to install DBD::Sybase through CPAN, and I seem to be
running into trouble with linking 32/64 bit code by the looks of it.  I
was using the libraries included with Sybase ASE 15 express edition,
available on sybase's web site.  Does anyone know what should be done ...

as requested by the DBI man page:
[root]/home/alex# perl perl_dbi_nulls_test.pl
Using connect arguments, db version: 3.3.16
=> Drop table 'dbi__null_test_tmp', if it already exists...

You can download it from
   http://homepage.mac.com/tim.bunce/.Public/perl/DBI-1.55-RC2.tar.gz
=head2 Changes in DBI 1.55 (svn rev 9465),  27th April 2007
 Fixed set_err() so HandleSetErr hook is executed reliably, if set.

Hi Tim,
Just have some questions on how to uninstall/reinstall DBI and
DBD-Oracle.  I typed uninst DBI and got an error message.  I was able to
uninstall DBD-Oracle successfully and tried to reinstall but got another

I read on following site that DBD::CSV supports multi-character separator.
But I am not able to use it. my separator is |++|
http://www.annocpan.org/~JZUCKER/DBD-CSV-0.22/lib/DBD/CSV.pm<http://www.annocpan
.org/%7EJZUCKER/DBD-CSV-0.22/lib/DBD/CSV.pm>
Even after setting sep_char to ...

Soon, I'll be releasing DBD::mysql 4.005 and was wondering if there any
last minute thoughts, requests?
Kind regards,
Patrick

Is it just me, or is using perl on a linux server to extract  
information from an MS SQL server insanely difficult?  Has no one  
else struggled with this?  Here is my set up:
FC4 -> PERL w/DBI -> DBD::ODBC -> unixODBC -> FreeTDS

I have tracked down a subtle bug in selectrow_arrayref.  It's in
DBI-1.54/Driver.xst, so it's probably in various drivers - I found it
in DBD-Oracle-1.19.
What happens is selectrow_arrayref calls dbixst_bounce_method which uses

Question:
While connecting to a MSsql database, do you need to pass the uid and  
pwd in the $data_source string as well as in the parameter list for  
the connect call?  For example, are either of these correct:

I wonder if someone can help me with this...
In the DBI docs it refers to the range of values that are officially
registered for use by the Perl DBI in the International Standards:
=item C<TYPE>  (array-ref, read-only)

I've just released this module :
http://search.cpan.org/~bduggan/Class-DBI-Audit-0.01/lib/Class/DBI/Audit.pm
It's a handy way to keep a record of data changes made via
CDBI objects.  

Hi,  I am hoping someone here recognizes this problem:
I have installed unixODBC for use as a driver manager for DBD::ODBC.  
However, when I run the command: 'cpan DBD::ODBC' I end up with the  
following error:

Sorry, after starting this thread, I dropped out for a while folks.
John, did you get to a satisfactory solution in the end?
Paul
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Hello, I have a problem compiling DBI on HPUX 11.23 Ittanium platform.  There's clearly something not fully compatible in configure+compiler combination.  Enclosed is info according to README.
Additionally I intend to use Oracle driver (DBD::Oracle) and foresee more problems ...

Hai,
   I am using perl DBI module for fetching data from database.
   My database table contains almost >70 million  entries.
   I am fetching the data using  following steps