Another drawing tool: SQLFairy (sic) aka SQL::Translator

2005-01-19 Thread Ron Savage
Hi Folks http://savage.net.au/Ron/html/drawing-tools.html Thanx to Remo Sanges. -- Cheers Ron Savage, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 19/01/2005 http://savage.net.au/index.html Let the record show: Microsoft is not an Australian company

Re: Problem with connecting to an Oracle database using Perl

2005-01-19 Thread Hardy Merrill
Hi Charles, Try setting your environment variables in a BEGIN block, like this: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; BEGIN { $ENV{'NLS_LANG} = 'american'; $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = 'D:\Oracle\ora92'; } ### the rest of your code goes here ### I haven't done Perl/DBI/Oracle in quite a while, but that's

Re: Problem with connecting to an Oracle database using Perl

2005-01-19 Thread Hardy Merrill
It's probably worth pointing out here that the use of the BEGIN block *IS* described in the DBD::Oracle perldocs - as the perldocs are included when you install any module, after you install DBD::Oracle you can do perldoc DBD::Oracle to read the excellent perldocs. Look for the paragraphs

RE: Double quotes in select statement throw an error

2005-01-19 Thread Jeff Urlwin
Lee, The select statement is very valid and so is: SELECT 'Hello World!' as 'My first SQL Statement' -or- SELECT answer = 2+3 Really, try it. Anyway... I was sent the correct answer and was very surprised in that the syntax is indeed valid on some servers, however the ANSI

RE: Double quotes in select statement throw an error

2005-01-19 Thread Moosmann, James
Thank you everyone who responded and to Tim and Jeff: The reason the server generates an error is because there are 2 flags which can be set when you create the DSN: Use ANSI quoted identifiers Use ANSI null, padding and warning And they were both selected. De-selecting Use ANSI null,

RE: Double quotes in select statement throw an error

2005-01-19 Thread Jeff Urlwin
Thank you everyone who responded and to Tim and Jeff: The reason the server generates an error is because there are 2 flags which can be set when you create the DSN: Use ANSI quoted identifiers Use ANSI null, padding and warning And they were both selected. De-selecting Use

RE: Problem with connecting to an Oracle database using Perl

2005-01-19 Thread Reidy, Ron
Your environment is not correct, specifically ORACLE_HOME and maybe the NLS vars. I would look at the DBD::Oracle docs. They have information on env vars and how to connect. - Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc. -Original Message- From: Charles Lawrence

RE: Double quotes in select statement throw an error

2005-01-19 Thread amonotod
From: Moosmann, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/01/19 Wed AM 08:24:12 CST Does anyone know how to check/set this attribute using DBI so I don't have to instruct a user on changing his DSN? ( I don't see this option mentioned in DBD::ODBC ) Might I suggest using DSN-less connections, so

DBD::Proxy breaking die within eval strangeness

2005-01-19 Thread Addison, Mark
Hello, I'm having a very strange problem with DBD::Proxy and have ended up with brain meltdown - so now its your turn ;-) Basically, if I use DBD::Proxy to connect to a database (just doing a 'use DBD::Proxy' isn't enough), then localise $dbh-{AutoCommit} within an eval (to locally turn on

RE: Problem with connecting to an Oracle database using Perl

2005-01-19 Thread Graeme St. Clair
Her's a snippet that works. BEGIN { if (($^O eq 'MSWin32') or ($^O =~ /cygwin/i)) { # $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = q{C:/Oracle/Ora81}; # But Oracle::DBD will find it from the Windows registry } else { $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = q{/solarisdirectory/app/oracle/product/8.1.7}; } # Following string is

2 cursors? at the same time

2005-01-19 Thread Nina Markova
### # or $ROOTDIR = pwd my $ROOTDIR = '/yoda/home/dba/STA/cnsn_ops_log/UPDATE_20041103/20050119'; my $sep='@'; my $actionCount = 0;# actionid counter which is actually almost ticketid # as for old data we are assuming

Re: 2 cursors? at the same time

2005-01-19 Thread Nina Markova
Hi all, I found solution myself reading information from the google group. I should autocomit off. I did it and works. Nina Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm List-Post: mailto:dbi-users@perl.org List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2 cursors? at the same time

2005-01-19 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/19/2005 05:01 PM, Nina Markova said: I found solution myself reading information from the google group. I should autocomit off. I did it and works. Thank you for the followup with the solution you found. It may be useful to someone else later. -- Mac :}) ** I usually forward private