Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-05 Thread Sam Vilain
Darren Duncan wrote: Okay, considering that using the same name prepare() like this may confuse some people, here is a refined solution that uses 3 methods instead; please disregard any contrary statements that I previously made: I think I'm beginning to like it. Allow me to suggest one or

Re: it works, but...

2005-07-05 Thread Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
On 7/4/05, Jonathan Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Gerardo, Perl + DBI + DBD::Informix imposes at least a moderate amount of overhead compared with a raw ESQL/C program. Of course, it's reasonable, I'm aware of that. Whether the time ratio you are seeing is reasonable is slightly

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-05 Thread Adam Kennedy
4. All host parameters should be named (like :foo) rather than positional (like ?), meeting with the SQL:2003 standard. The named format is a lot easier to use and flexible, making programmers a lot less error prone, more powerful, and particularly more resource efficient when the same

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-05 Thread Darren Duncan
At 6:14 PM +1200 7/5/05, Sam Vilain wrote: I think I'm beginning to like it. Allow me to suggest one or two further refinements... my $sth1 = $dbh.compile( $sql_or_ast ); # always sans connection $sth1.prepare(); # always with connection, even if DBD doesn't use it $sth1.execute(); #

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-05 Thread Maxim Sloyko
Sam Vilain wrote: However, making it in a file in $HOME/.xxx means that the sysadmin can set it up to be mode 400 or something like that, to ensure other users can't access it if someone forgot to set the permissions right on the application code (or, hopefully, configuration file). I don't

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-05 Thread Adam Kennedy
- optional treatment of the statements as an AST, similar in concept to SQL::Routine, or Tangram::Expr. Death to SQL templating systems! I suspect during this process people are going to want a lot of things that layer on top of what we currently see as DBI. Personally I think Tim got

RE: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help [DRAFT]

2005-07-05 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Sam Tregar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't mean to imply that asking for money was a bad idea. I think it's a fine idea. I just didn't think that was the main point of the email. Here's the message I got from that email: There's a new project starting that needs help. I

RE: it works, but...

2005-07-05 Thread Rutherdale, Will
Nobody ever claimed Perl is faster than C. Just more appropriate for certain kinds of jobs. Have you tried setting $dbh-RowCacheSize? This can make a big different in bulk data operations. -Will -Original Message- From: Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: it works, but...

2005-07-05 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 17:08, Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido wrote: OK, let's see what I can do. Just taking time from the project to think of rewriting reports is already a luxury, and there's a competing alternative called SQR. I have to test it too and see how much time it takes. Funny, I

Installing DBD::File via CPAN

2005-07-05 Thread Paul Boutros
Hello, I have a small-but-weird problem. When I install the 0.34 release of DBD::File via CPAN it seems to make/test/install properly but... it just doesn't stick. The installation seems to stay at 0.33. I also get when I download directly and do the make/test/install myself. Here's the

Inconsisant Errors

2005-07-05 Thread c.w.huling
oracle 9.2.0.4 (client) DBD-Oracle 1.16 DBI 1.40 Apache DBI 0.94 Perl 5.8.5 We recently moved from the web server and DB running on the same machine to two seperate machines. Things started smoothly, but over the weekend, we have seen some weirdness and really can't explain why things work

Re: it works, but...

2005-07-05 Thread Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
On 7/5/05, Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 17:08, Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido wrote: OK, let's see what I can do. Just taking time from the project to think of rewriting reports is already a luxury, and there's a competing alternative called SQR. I have to

RE: Installing DBD::File via CPAN

2005-07-05 Thread Reidy, Ron
Paul, Did you check the timestamp of the new .pm and/or .so? Maybe the internal $VERSION variable was not updated by the module author. - Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc. -Original Message- From: Paul Boutros [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 05,

RE: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help [DRAFT]

2005-07-05 Thread Sam Tregar
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Ronald J Kimball wrote: Total Contributions: $1320.25 I suggest you go back and reread Tim's email. What he said was that he donated a little over $500 himself, not that the total raised was $500. That's good to know. It doesn't really alter my assessment though - the

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-05 Thread Sam Vilain
Adam Kennedy wrote: Yes, native positional support is still important. positions make it very easy to do SQL math. To express it in overly simplistic code $foo = [ a = ?, foo ]; $bar = [ b = ?, bar ]; $baz = $foo and $bar; # $baz now is [ a = ? and b = ?, foo, bar ]; Bearing mind a situation

RE: Installing DBD::File via CPAN

2005-07-05 Thread Ron Savage
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:33:00 -0600, Reidy, Ron wrote: Hi Folks Or perhaps the old version is in the path before the new version. -- Cheers Ron Savage, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 6/07/2005 http://savage.net.au/index.html Let the record show: Microsoft is not an Australian company

RE: it works, but...

2005-07-05 Thread Jonathan Leffler
RowCacheSize won't have any affect on DBD::Informix unless DBI itself makes it do so. -Original Message- From: Rutherdale, Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 5, 2005 7:50 AM To: dbi-users@perl.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: it works, but... Nobody ever claimed Perl is faster than C.

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help [DRAFT]

2005-07-05 Thread David Nicol
On 7/2/05, Dean Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Asynchronous queries (coroutines? threads?) Threads. If you've ever done much Java/JDBC work, you'll realize how much simpler a solution to async it is. (Ignoring the rest of Java/JDBC's undesirable traits) A couple quarters ago I

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help [DRAFT]

2005-07-05 Thread David Nicol
On 7/5/05, Dean Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm already implementing [a message-passing async] wrapper for DBI (DBIx::Threaded); not a pragma, and very specific to DBIv1, but hopefully it solves at least 85-90% of the problem. (tho async cancel/abort isn't solvable at this point)

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-05 Thread Steve Sapovits
Maxim Sloyko wrote: I don't think this solves the problem, because what I usually want is the user to be able to use the application, but unable to see the DB password. So the user should have read permission set for the file, but on the other hand he shouldn't. It's not not a problem for Web