Webmaster Forum / Perl / DBI Library / January 2008

It seems my last patch for DBD::Oracle revealed a bug in take_imp_data;
when using perl's malloc implementation, you can get more SvLEN than
you expect.  This patches DBI to do the right thing.  Thanks to John Scoles
and Tim Bunce for their help in finding this.

CPAN Bug 32309 was created recently, but I'm told that the underlying
problems was first reported in 2003 (though I only see DBI bugs dating back
4 years or so, so I can believe that the original bug report has now been
lost).  The new bug entry includes a plausible solution (albeit ...

Now I want to use DBI for my current project.
Here I have trying to install DBD::ORACLE PACKAGE it is thronging error.
And it is now allowing to install this package.
Please help us in installing this package.

I am using perl 5.8.0 on RedHat ES 3. I got DBD::Oracle-1.19 to build  
and pass the tests after we worked out the kinks from a recent move to  
a new network. I am and have been in the process of trying to get some  
legacy software to run.

Who is the current maintainer of DBD::MySQL??

I've just spent a long time tracking down a bug in an Oracle procedure
because DBI's execute method returned success even though the procedure
raised an exception. Shouldn't exceptions raised in procedures cause
execute to fail?

I need to connect to an Oracle db on a remote machine, on the local network, that only supports ssl connections. Is there a way to do this using DBD::Oracle? Is there some other way to do this?
Any assistance appreciated.
Tim Hester

Is there a such a thing as a compatibility matrix for DBD,DBI, perl, OS
(solaris) and Oracle? If so, where could I find the doc?
When upgrading DBD and DBI, I'm wondering if I should check the
compatibility with Oracle version and so on.

I'm having trouble getting DBD::Sybase to work.
I've been looking around for answers to this problem, but I haven't been
able to find any...
I've got a new Linux box, 64 bit, with OpenSuSE 10.3 installed on it.

I am getting a failing test when I try to install Class::DBI through
CPAN. The test is normally skipped unless DBD::SQLite is installed,
but I wanted to use Class::DBI with SQLite. I get essentially the
same results on a Fedora Core 6 Linux box and a Mac OS X laptop.

Hello Tony,
I'm using '*Class::DBI*' in my projects with '*DBD::Pg*' database
driver. When use some tables like this
*__PACKAGE__->table('schema_name.table_name');*

A while back (months and months, in fact) I was asked to install DBI for
use with an Oracle database. As part of the install I remember that I
was asked for the value of things like ORACLE_HOME and some others.
Today I'm told that they want to move ORACLE_HOME to someplace else on

I get emails from the cpan automated testing that list failures, but the
failures are not the driver two main things:
1. Can't find mysql_config. This script prints out the compile options,
paths, etc

I would love to see someone fix this in the module so I don't have to
edit it on every machine I install.
Called UNIVERSAL::can() as a function, not a method at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Class/DBI.pm line 265

I installed the Oracle Instant Client packages by rpm back in  
December. Because of the install or more likely coincidentally I had  
problems with corruption of the system files of the database. The  
database was empty at the time and I simply rebuilt it.