Trouble using IPC adapter with Oracle 8

[James . R . Skaggs]

How does one use the IPC protocol when connecting to a database on the 
same machine?

This used to work for Oracle 7...

    $ENV{ORACLE_SID} = 'THE_SID';
    $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Oracle:','ods',$passwd);

The TNS adaptor works fine, but I would imagine that IPC is faster...

I am using DBI 1.30, and DBD::Oracle 1.12, and Oracle 8.1.7.3

Mtia,

James Skaggs
Seagate Tech

Here is the output of the adapters command....


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Installed Net8 Tranport Protocols are:

    IPC
    TCP/IP
    BEQueath
    SSL
    RAW

Installed Net8 Naming Adapters are:

    TNSnames.ora
    OracleNames
    LDAP
    Hostname

Installed Oracle Advanced Security products are:

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