[ale] Oracle DBD-DBI

[Geoffrey]

Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> This is probably a repeat questions BUT I can find the previous
> answer....
> 
> I am running redhat 9 std install.  I want to connect to a remote
> Oracle 8 machine via Perl.  I have the DBD Oracle 1.5 tar file.
> Unfortunately it complains about an ORACLE_HOME environmental
> variable.  perl Makefile.PL bombs out....
> 
>> From reading the clients.readme file, it appears that I must have
>> Oracle files on my machine in order to access Oracle on another
>> machine.  I am a bit confused.  My expertise to date is win32::odbc
>> with perl and access.  My plan is to move Access to MYSQL but I
>> also have to get at a table on a remote Oracle 8 machine.
> 
> Anyone use DBD to get at oracle?  What do I have to install?

Here's a possible helpful link:

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/dd26/DBD::Oracle.html

I've done this, but it was quite a while back.  I'd suggest you might 
subscribe to the dbd/dbi list and post the question there if you don't 
get an answer here.

For what it's worth, Oracle was the biggest pain in the butt to get 
working on Linux, even as a simple client solution.

Maybe things have changed.  Good luck and post your successes.


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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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