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I got a problem when trying to install DBI-1.48 module on a solaris 9
box.
The error is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] # make

i m getting below error while trying to install DBD-Oracle-1.19
the oracle installed is 11g in the machince  
[oracle@ipl31dor DBD-Oracle-1.19]$ perl Makefile.PL
Multiple copies of Driver.xst found in: /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/ ...

when I tried to install DBD-ODBC package
I get following error message
"ppm install failed: All available install areas are readonly."
Could you please guide me on how to resolve this?

When I tried to install DBD-Oracle-1.19 then I m getting below error in
make test step
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t

I am using Oracle 9i in windows and I've installed Active Perl 5.8.8
Build 820.
I am able to install DBI-1.48.
But I am not able to install DBD-Oracle-1.16 or DBD-Oracle-1.15.

i wrote a skript which works fine for several Oracle Versions on several
platforms (linux, solarias 8/9).
if i run that script ineractively on solaris 10 it also works fine.
if i run it as a cron job i get:

I have been pulling my hair out for two days with this problem I'm
getting trying to install DBD::Oracle:
$ make test
       gcc -maix32 -c  -I/apps/oracle/product/oracle816/rdbms/demo -I/

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          I have written a Perl script, which deals with the ftp ing
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(AUT) at remote m/c.
The script is as below and here I have 2 doubts, so please help me to

I encouter an error with DBD::Oracle and Oracle instances 10g that I
dont understand :
 DBD::Oracle::st execute failed: ORA-01008: not all variables bound
(DBD ERROR: OCIStmtExecute)

While looking for memory leaks in our code using Devel::Leak, we
pinpointed one of them to a call to selectcol_arrayref().
The attached script tries several DBI commands on various DBD drivers
(it's easy to add one, or to add code to be tested for leakage), and

I'm writing a Perl DBI script using the DBD::Pg driver.  There's a point
in the script at which I need to drop the database I'm working with and
recreate it from some files that have been generated by the script.  I'm
calling the external dropdb and createdb programs to do this, ...

Howdy dbi-devers,
More and more lately, I'm writing database functions in PL/pgSQL (in  
PostgreSQL) or SQL (in MySQL and others) to do the heavy lifting of  
interacting with database tables. I've been thinking that I'd really  

I have been trying to update some old Perl code to fix a web page that prints
data from an Oracle database.
Whenever I run the file I get an error. It is:
prepare:  QUERY STATION: ORA-00904: invalid character (DBD ERROR: error possibly

Hi *,
I'm using DBD::Oracle (code checked onCPAN and verified in version 1.21) and encountered a problem (DB is Oracle 10gR2) related to LOBs and synonyms:
Table TTHUMBNAIL (DOCUMENT_ID NUMBER(12), THUMBNAIL BLOB NOT NULL) is owned by user DMSSGADM. User DMSSGDP has a synonym ...