Webmaster Forum / Perl / DBI Library / July 2008

I'm running into a problem installing DBD-Informix.
I'm running Perl version 5.8.2 on AIX against Informix 10 with the
current DBI.
The version of the Informix SDK is 2.01, with no option to upgrade since

Dear Andrew,
When you want help, listen to those providing it.
I said "dbi-users@perl.org" - not dbi-dev.
However, given the volume of output, maybe it is just as well.  Fewer people

I do not understand why I encounter this error :
   ORA-12705 : Cannot access NLS data files or invalid environment
specified
My env is :

Ok hot off the press  RC3
A few more minor fixed but a last minute patch for  ora_lob_chunk_size
function
It can be found in the usual spot

I've just noticed an apparent regression/change_of_behaviour that
affects me.
We do a good deal of our DB access accessing tables via private
synonyms.  That is, we connect via schema_X which has a private synonym

thanks for your advice -
I installed ActivePerl-5.10.0.100 now,
and the DBD::Oracle - package
works fine now.

I've been trying to come up with a consistent and comfortable approach  
to dealing with a large number of complex action-performing stored  
procedures I've got sitting in my Oracle database -- things with names  
like "Assign_customer" that perform many actions across several ...

Perl 5.8, DBI 1.607, DBI::Oracle 1.21, Oracle 11g (11.1.0)
Any script I try to run results in the error:
Database connection not made: ORA-12505: TNS:listener does not  
currently know of SID given in connect descriptor (DBD ERROR:  

Dear Sir/Users,
I am getting an error " relocation error: file
/opt/local/oracle32/lib/libocci.so.10.1: symbol
__1cDstdJbad_allocG__vtbl_: referenced symbol" when I run the "make

I  thought I'd post an update to  this   thread.
I had  been trying to get  Oracle working with  ActiveState  perl for
MAC.  No particular reason  for doing this, I   wan introduced to Perl
and on the  Wion32 enviroment with ActiveState  as "the one to use."

I am trying to connect to the oracle database through a perl script. I
have installed DBI module on my server.
I need to run my script on an App server and the database is on the other
server.

Hi
I am working on perl assignment which is first perl code in our
environment, i have come across following problem, pls if you could
provide your expert consultansy it will be great help to me

The first Release Candidate for DBD::Oracle 1.21 is now ready for your
enjoyment.
You can find it here
http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/DBD-Oracle-1.21-RC1.tar

From the DBI::DBD docs in "The dbd_db_login6 method" I read:
=====
Here’s how you fetch them; as an example we use hostname attribute,
which can be up to 12 characters long excluding null terminator:

I've looked at the DBI::Gofer::Transport::mod_perl to setup a connection pooling server,
but to be honest, I just can not grok it.  How is it setup?  So my question is has anyone
set it up?  How, or what are the configuration files.  In the cpan docs, it has
http://search.cpan ...