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               I have installed DBI/DBD using gcc in our development
solaris server. I want to install on production server but without using
gcc or cc(compiler), Is there any way to transfer binary of DBI/DBD to

I have an ASP page with Perl code in it. Now when i open a new session than
i am able to connect to the system and get the pages displayed pretty fast.
And also whatever database query i fire is executed pretty fast.
But if i perform any operation from an old session which is not ...

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Subject: RE: using $dbh->quote with UTF
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:52:49 -0400
From: "Schultz, Len" <len@winequest.com>

First, is this the right place to ask questions about compiling DBD::Oracle?
I am having trouble building with DBD-Oracle 1.19
Against the stock perl in Solaris 10, I get an error that looks like this:
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I'm trying to debug a problem in a Perl script that retrieves records
from an Oracle database and writes those records to a flat file.  I'm
retrieving the records using fetchall_hashref() and have found that at
least one record isn't being written correctly so I'm trying to figure

file: $CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.59_90.tar.gz
 size: 495066 bytes
  md5: 05479ff557900e8e93b4f0f018d29e47
It's called DBI-1.59_90 but it's actually 1.601.

I have not found a was to install it with out the compiler, what flavor
of Solaris are you using?
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From: MEHTA, HARESH, ATTSI [mailto:hm9784@att.com]

I'm trying to use $dbh->quote with a UTF string, and I'm not having
luck.  How can I get it to return a UTF8 string?
Here is my example:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

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Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:22:42 -0500

[sorry for eventual double posting]
since a longer time I am using DBD::CSV for several purposes and were
quite happy with it. But now I try to install it on an old Linux Server
(SuSE) and the 'make test' fails in nearly every case. Can someone give

I have Perl 5.8.8 built for Windows x64 from Activestate (version 822)
installed on a Windows 2003 x64 bit server (Xeon processor).
I have installed version 1.59 of DBI and version 1.14 of DBD::ODBC compiled
for x64 bit, using the freely available Microsoft SDK.

since a longer time I am using DBD::CSV for several purposes and were
quite happy with it. But now I try to install it on an old Linux Server
and the 'make test' fails in nearly every case. Can someone give some hints?
Here is the 'make test' part from the automated installation ...

Running some redhat servers and created some scripts that use DBI and DBD::Oracle to access our 10.2.0.3 databases.
The script was built and tested and has been used successfully on dual core 64bit Xeon CPU servers and with as best as we can tell an identical installation on some ...

Hi. Sorry if this turns out to be a newbie mistake, but I've run into an odd
problem while using DBD::Oracle.
For some reason, my sql statement results in empty strings.
Instead of getting the value i want to see there is a "''," (please see

I am getting the error posted below when I try to delete from a table
that has_many() records in another table. All my classes are defined
in separate files and Communication is being loaded before Task where
Communication has_a(Task) and T has_many(Communications).