Re: export in perl

2005-06-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On 06/22/2005 04:06 AM, Vamsi_Doddapaneni said: I have a doubt regarding the usage of export.pm. This is not a DBI question, you would be better off asking on a general Perl forum. -- Mac :}) ** I usually forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter:

Re: Regarding DBI

2005-06-20 Thread Michael A Chase
On 06/19/2005 10:24 PM, prashanth said: i would like to know the detailed architecture and design of dbi. i would like to know how its been written and how it interacts with the drivers etc. i would like to know whats going on internally... any pointers to this would be appreciated. thanks in

Re: regarding DBI

2005-06-20 Thread Michael A Chase
On 06/20/2005 04:24 AM, vasundhar said: On 6/20/05, Clive Eisen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want us to do your homework? For collective learning if we are asked to do so ... We must be ready Then read the fine manual with the URL I gave you before:

Re: Error while using Oraperl package.

2005-06-16 Thread Michael A Chase
On 06/16/2005 02:55 AM, Ashish Jain said: I am using Oraperl pack for my development. I get the following error at the line where I use Oraperl ( use Oraperl). You should not be using Oraperl for new development. It is a wrapper around DBI and DBD::Oracle intended to allow existing programs

Re: Seek help installing DBD::Oracle

2005-06-14 Thread Michael A Chase
On 06/14/2005 04:58 PM, McLean, Emmett (HQP) said: Hi, Opon attemping a DBD::Oracle install it appears that I must install OCI first to get oci.h ... But if I attempt to install OCI first it baulks that it can't find Oracle.pm Any suggestions? Here is the DBD::Oracle install attempt :

Re: DBI module installation problem on solaris 10

2005-06-13 Thread Michael A Chase
On 06/13/2005 05:39 AM, Shailesh Mali said: I am trying to install DBI and DBD modules on Solaris 10 and getting following error. Please suggest is there any solution for this problem. Perl.xsc mv Perl.xsc Perl.c cc -c-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xarch=v8 -D_TS_ERRNO -xO3

Re: Finding out the type expected for a placeholder

2005-06-13 Thread Michael A Chase
On 06/13/2005 02:56 AM, Avis, Ed said: Michael A Chase wrote: Placeholders are VARCHAR2 by default. If you know what columns you are inserting into (and you should), you can use $dbh-column_info() to find out the column types. Sorry, I gave the wrong example. In fact my query is just

Re: Finding out the type expected for a placeholder

2005-06-13 Thread Michael A Chase
On 06/13/2005 06:28 AM, Avis, Ed said: Michael A Chase wrote: Ed said: I'd like to find out whether Oracle is expecting a given bind variable to be a datetime, an integer or whatever. The original example may have been wrong, but the advice still stands. You can control the type of each

RE: Finding out the type expected for a placeholder

2005-06-13 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting Avis, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael A Chase wrote: All placeholders are VARCHAR unless the type is explicitly given in the bind_param*() call. I'm not quite sure what you mean. It is quite possible for a placeholder to be of DATETIME type, for example. Perl passes the date

Re: Null Values Returned from a Stored Procedure

2005-06-09 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting Denesa K Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How does a script handle when null values are returned from a stored procedure? The same as any other NULL values. http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI/DBI.pm#Notation_and_Conventions But you are asking the wrong question. You want to know when the

Re: Finding out the type expected for a placeholder

2005-06-09 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting Avis, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a way I can prepare a statement handle for some SQL like insert into some_table values (:a, :b) and then find out what types the database is expecting for the two placeholders? I'm using DBD::Oracle. Really I just want to know whether a

Re: How can I...

2005-06-07 Thread Michael A Chase
On 06/06/2005 02:06 PM, Peter Rabbitson said: On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 01:11:30PM -0700, Vergara, Michael (TEM) wrote: I want to connect to an Oracle database and test for the existence of a table. My first thought was to SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TABLE, but DBI catches the ORA-942 error and I

Re: Seeking advice on DBI,DBD on Windows for multiple RDBMS

2005-06-02 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting David Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As I understand it, I have choices of: --building under cygwin, which then requires me to run under cygwin. Cygwin also tends to be a bit slow. That may or may not matter in your target environment. On the other hand, it gets you the closest to a

Re: problem with DBD::Oracle

2005-06-01 Thread Michael A Chase
On 06/01/2005 04:33 AM, Malka Cymbalista said: Thanks to everyone who tried to help. In the end I solved the problem by searching on google and finding the answer. The problem is specific to mod_perl2 which is what we are running. I'm not sure I really understood the explanation but it has to

Re: problem with DBD::Oracle

2005-05-25 Thread Michael A Chase
On 05/25/2005 04:46 AM, Malka Cymbalista said: Our web server is running Apache 2.0.48 with mod_perl 1.99_12 on a Sun machine running Solaris 9. We are running perl 5.8.1, DBI 1.39 and DBD-Oracle 1.16. We are trying to connect from our web server to an Oracle database that is on a different

Re: Reg. perl module installation

2005-05-24 Thread Michael A Chase
On 05/24/2005 06:40 AM, shanthi nagarajan said: Dear Friend, I am shnathi Nagarajan working as a computer operator in Bioinformatics centre, Pondicherry University, India. Presently I am trying to connect perl and mysql. I have downloaded DBI-1.25.tar module and extracted into

Re: Cursor Values and Subroutines

2005-05-14 Thread Michael A Chase
On 05/13/2005 11:01 AM, Denesa K Shaw said: How do I pass the value of the variable $FILE_NM returned in the subroutine get_file to the subroutine Update_T_Received? I'm needing this value to for my update statement. Normally I can easily return the string from a sub routinge, then call it from

Re: insert column if not exist

2005-05-12 Thread Michael A Chase
On 05/12/2005 04:50 AM, Rachel Llorenna said: Use SHOW COLUMNS on the table first; check if the desired column name is in there, or ALTER TABLE as necessary. I think there is a MySQL-specific command you can probably use; IF NOT .. clause, but that's bad practise. It's probably better to use

Re: Fetching BIGINT Failed

2005-05-10 Thread Michael A Chase
On 05/10/2005 07:10 AM, Mohankumar said: I am using the Perl version 5.005_02, DBD::ASAny::VERSION = '1.12' and ASA 9.0.0. Fetching BIGINT failed when they contained more than 8 digits. I have a workaround by converting the BIGINT to VARCHAR using convert(). But this conversion is not possible for

Re: Spreadsheet::WriteExcel question

2005-05-09 Thread Michael A Chase
On 05/09/2005 12:45 PM, Robert said: I am pulling data out of Oracle and putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Using this: while ( $row = $sth-fetchrow_arrayref ) { # this is a fast and simple way to deal with nulls: foreach (@$row) { $_ = '' unless defined } push (@results, @$row);

Re: Installing DBI and DBD::TSM

2005-05-09 Thread Michael A Chase
On 05/09/2005 03:47 PM, De Joe, Jackie said: I have two questions, first do I understand correctly to use DBD::TSM 1.48 I must have DBI installed? You understand correctly. Second, I am having trouble installing DBI. Here's some info: I am very much a newbie at compiling code, any help will be

Re: FW: Build dbd::oracle for both Oracle 8.x And Oracle 9.x

2005-05-06 Thread Michael A Chase
: Michael A Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 6:00 AM To: Saiyed, Khatir Cc: dbi-users@perl.org Subject: Re: Build dbd::oracle for both Oracle 8.x And Oracle 9.x ... DBD::Oracle is built for a particular API, Oracle 8.1.7 or 9.2.0 in your case, and you must have ORACLE_HOME

Re: Loading DBI Problem

2005-05-04 Thread Michael A Chase
On 05/03/2005 11:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `Perl.o' What language optional software package (name) does the error message refer to? The one that includes the same

Re: Problem calling External Procedure with REFCURSOR

2005-05-04 Thread Michael A Chase
On 05/04/2005 02:40 PM, Denesa K Shaw said: Any Ideas on why I'm getting this error? It appears not to like my date that I'm passing to it. I printed the date to a log and it looks ok, any ideas? Error: DBI::st=HASH(0x20391b00)-bind_param(...): attribute parameter 'TO_DATE('01/02/200','mm/dd/

Re: Build dbd::oracle for both Oracle 8.x And Oracle 9.x

2005-05-01 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/30/2005 10:33 PM, Saiyed, Khatir said: Can I build single dbd::oracle to work with both Oracle 8.1.7 and Oracle 9.2.0 running on the Server (Solaris 8) ? If yes, how ? If not, any other better means to acheive this. DBD::Oracle is built for a particular API, Oracle 8.1.7 or 9.2.0 in your

Re: Can't locate DBI.pm

2005-04-28 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/27/2005 01:22 PM, Chekuri, Lalitha said: It is fresh install: magma:oracle $uname -a SunOS magma 5.9 Generic_117171-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60 My perl -v magma:oracle $perl -v This is perl, v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris-64int (with 48 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) For

Re: DBD::Oracle and XMLType

2005-04-28 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/28/2005 05:32 AM, Job Miller said: After a little searching of archives, I found the same exact problem and the same self-proposed workaround almost a year ago. Is there a better way without creating another column in a temp table? I couldn't find a follow-up to this post. There is an

Re: Can't locate DBI.pm

2005-04-28 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/28/2005 06:54 AM, Chekuri, Lalitha said: My problem is: To install perl it is asking cc I downloaded gcc from freeware, To install gcc: if I have cc in path it is giving /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed error. If I don't have cc in the path it is saying cc not

Re: Need Help to install DBD-Oracle on Windows 2000

2005-04-27 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/26/2005 03:39 PM, Wang, Weili said: I have downloaded DBD-Oracle DBD-Oracle9-1.16-5.8.4.tar.gz from ftp.esoftmatic.com ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/ website and unzipped it. Could you tell me how to install DBD-Oracle on Windows 2000 system? Did you read the instructions in

Re: Oracle ref cursors - documentation patch.

2005-04-27 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/27/2005 03:01 AM, Charles Jardine said: Here is a patch to the pod documentation of DBD::Oracle-1.16. The patch alters the section headed 'Binding Cursors'. diff -ur DBD-Oracle-1.16.cursor-docs/Oracle.pm DBD-Oracle-1.16/Oracle.pm Your diff has the source files reversed. Thank you for the

Re: Can't locate DBI.pm

2005-04-27 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/27/2005 01:13 PM, Reidy, Ron said: b. Install gcc properly (**AND** you will need to downgrade from the 3.x version to 2.96 as described in the Oracle installation manuals) Where did you see this? The advice is several years out of date. I've used a couple different gcc 3.x versions to

Re: DBD::Oracle Installation problem

2005-04-26 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/26/2005 03:54 AM, PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists said: When I install DBD::Oracle module, I get the following error. = ld: fatal: file /oracle/product/10/lib//libclntsh.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 ... Summary of

Re: Transaction handling with Oracle DBD

2005-04-23 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/23/2005 08:30 AM, RKris said: Hi, I am getting data corruption when I attempt to run several processes in parallel when making changes to two tables. DBD version 1.16, DBI version 1.48, Linux 2.6, Oracle 9i. I am trying to select a counter value from table 1, insert it into table 2 and

Re: Problem in connecting the DB

2005-04-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/21/2005 09:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks for the reply. Can u give me link for downloading the perl oracle dbd driver for WINDOWS XP operating system.I cannot ftp in my place so i like to get it from any http site.Before installing the new one i need to uninstall the already

Re: Stored Procedures

2005-04-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/22/2005 09:30 AM, Denesa K Shaw said: How do I pass an one parameter to a External Stored Procedure? I don't think anyone here has a clue. Without knowing what DBD driver you are using, the answer would be pure guesswork. Please read the URL in my signature. If you have a DBI 1.38 or

Re: Problem in connecting the DB

2005-04-21 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/21/2005 06:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am facing poblem in connecting a database thru perl program Here are the details about the packages which i installed in my Windows machine ... ppm describe dbd-oracle === Name:

Re: inserting data coming from a hash

2005-04-21 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/21/2005 10:11 AM, Robert said: This was a solution: my $insert_stmt = Insert into TABLE (name, date, type, federal, active) values( :name, :date, :type, :federal, :active ); my $sth = $dbh-prepare( $insert_stmt ); my $holidays; foreach my $name ( keys %holidays ) { $sth-bind_param(

Re: DBD::Oracle install problem On Solaris 8

2005-04-19 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/19/2005 10:18 AM, Hemanth Kumar said: I am trying to install DBD 1.3 with DBI 1.37 on Solaris and the database version is Oracle 9.2. When I run the make command it returns the following error: In file included from Oracle.h:20, from Oracle.xs:1: dbdimp.h:44: ocidfn.h: No

Re: having a problem with trailing spaces

2005-04-19 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/19/2005 10:42 AM, Ian Harisay said: I am having problem with spaces. I am loading data from a normalized schema into a denormalized table. Many of the fields I am copying originally come from free form fields and we don't attempt to clean them up at all. What we grab in the form is what

Re: Describe table

2005-04-18 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/18/2005 10:49 AM, Mike Scott said: I'm using DBI and DBD::Oracle. I'd like to be able to describe a table, but 'describe table' fails no matter how I try to pass it to DBI. I feel certain that this is a FAQ and so apologise in advance. I have tried to track down an answer, but describe

Re: how to get datatype of columns of a table in perl script

2005-04-14 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting Vamsi_Doddapaneni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am new to perl just (1 1/2 month experience.). I am developing perl script which connects to oracle database and selects rows from a (x) table and then inserts them into its corresponding table in db2. So, while inserting i need to find what is

Re: return parameter value if query does't match

2005-04-07 Thread Michael A Chase
On 04/07/2005 04:05 AM, xaver biton said: i've 2 select query. the first one is like my $sql = $dbh-prepare(q{select * from test}); If all you want is col4, it would be safer to use SELECT col4 the second: my $sql1 = $dbh-prepare(q{select * from test1 where test1.row = ?}) $sql-execute();

Re: mysqlhotcopy + rsync and incremental backups

2005-03-27 Thread Michael A Chase
On 03/26/2005 04:12 PM, Jesus Altuve said: I was wondering if it is possible to use mysqlhotcopy to use rsync instead of cp in order to make an incremental backup of a database. cp is the only copy method supported, but if you included the 'only method supported' statement it is because you were

Re: Sending Mail

2005-03-24 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 03/24/2005 05:31 PM, Gav said: Can someone point me as to what is wrong with this :- #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); use CGI qw(:standard); use DBI; $|=1;

Re: Perl/postgres problems

2005-03-22 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 03/21/2005 12:34 PM, Simon Windsor said: I am having problems accessing postgres from mod-perl on one box. The error I am getting is install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread- multi/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' for module DBD::Pg: libpq.so.3: failed to map

Re: Oracle client and DBD::Oracle

2005-03-19 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 03/19/2005 06:44 AM, John said: Has anyone tried to install DBD::Oracle with success while Oracle Client is installed? In my case oci.h and some other headers were not found and i ultimately enforced to install the whole database server for the job. Is there any known trick about that? Oracle

Re: How to get trace from Class::DBI ?

2005-03-18 Thread Michael A Chase tech
Please do *not* start a new question by replying to an old one as this causes several problems: 1) most email software will correctly think that your email is a response to the email you are replying to, and will indicate this by displaying your email as a child of the original email 2) because of

Re: DBD::Oracle - closing cursors returned from PL/SQL

2005-03-16 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 03/16/2005 08:25 AM, Charles Jardine said: perldoc DBD::Oracle says, under Binding Cursors: To close the cursor you (currently) need to do this: $sth3 = $dbh-prepare(BEGIN CLOSE :cursor; END;); $sth3-bind_param_inout(:cursor, \$sth2, 0, { ora_type = ORA_RSET } ); $sth3-execute; This

Re: NULLs in Text::CSV_XS and DBD::CSV

2005-03-16 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 03/16/2005 09:50 AM, NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) said: Still banging my head into a wall... Now I am getting NULLs inserted as expected into the database, but I am getting errors on the compare. my @old = $test-fetchrow_array (); foreach $n (0..20) { chomp($file_val =

RE: Value deletion

2005-03-10 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting Moreno, Javier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually it is now getting worse. It has AutoCommit set to 0 so I am doing this: $::sql = UPDATE GLOBALSettings SET Lang = ?; $::crt = $::lang_code; Debug(About to prepare: $::sql with criteria: $::crt); $::sth = $::dbh-prepare($::sql) or

Re: Oracle SQL V8

2005-03-10 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 03/10/2005 01:52 PM, Graeme St. Clair said: I just tripped over a curious thing. It turned out that my d-b contained the occasional column with accidental leading blanks. I altered the query to:- SELECT TRIM(LEADING ' ' FROM CUST_NAME) AS CN, COUNT(*) AS C FROM DB GROUP BY CN ORDER BY CN

Re: PLease remove me from the list

2005-03-09 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 03/09/2005 01:02 PM, James B Schmidt said: Please remove me from the list. List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are sending the unsubscription request from a different email account than the one being sent to (see Return-Path and Received in the

RE: DBI connect as sysdba

2005-03-08 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting edward pena [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually, that does not work consistently. The most common cause for it to not work is mentioned in the last paragraph of the document extract below. Many Oracle instances are set up to refuse remote connections as DBA or OPER. -Original

Re: Running stored procedures

2005-03-01 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting Moreno, Javier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is probably a dumb question, but how do I run stored procedures with the DBI? I am using DBD::ODBC. It's pretty low level, but you may find some of the links in the perldoc useful. http://search.cpan.org/~jurl/DBD-ODBC/ODBC.pm A Google search

Re: perl oracle connection not working from browser

2005-02-24 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 02/24/2005 02:21 AM, davinder kohli said: I am having Perl 5.8 version and Oracle 10g installed on Windows server 2003. I am able to connect as well as execute Oracle queries from the command line. But wfrom the browser I am not able to connect to ORACLE database. Please help me. Thanks in

Re: Oracle error handling

2005-02-24 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 02/24/2005 08:08 AM, susan lam said: I'm new to perl. I apologize if this is not the right place to post newbie questions. This is the right forum for DBI and DBD questions. If mytable does not exist, I would like to trap the Oracle error message and write the message to an Oracle table. I

Re: New User-Defined Function Syntax in SQL::Statement

2005-02-21 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 02/21/2005 02:23 PM, Jeff Zucker said: $dbh-do(CREATE FUNCTION foo); # pre-declares function foo, a perl subroutine in current package $dbh-do(CREATE FUNCTION foo AS Bar::baz); # pre-declares function foo, using baz, a subroutine in package Bar Since AS usually introduces an alias, this

Re: DBI tand subroutine

2005-02-19 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 02/19/2005 02:25 PM, xaver biton said: wht's wrong with the following code, I should recieve '49201','49203', '49','49203', '49203','49203' and if I don't use the sub I do that, but if I use the sub I recieve only '491' To make sure I understand, if you take the guts out of area() and run that

Re: Can't save edited values to database

2005-02-18 Thread Michael A Chase
It's nice that everyone is so helpful with the CGI problem, but this isn't a CGI list. DBI comments below. Quoting MCMULLIN, NANCY [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ($pnotes) = $dbh-selectrow_array(SELECT notes FROM table WHERE t1 = '$pt');

Re: Curretn DBD for Oracle

2005-02-18 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 02/18/2005 02:33 PM, Douglas Greenwalt said: What DBD version of Oracle is the most current and where do I get it? Currently put on DBI/5.8.3/DBD-Oracle.ppd from esoftmatic.com. If you're running ActivePerl in MSWin and not ready to buuild it yourself, esoftmatic.com is the best source.

Re: Cannot Insert into Oracle

2005-02-14 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 02/14/2005 11:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If I don't use strict, I get the following errors: You should (nearly) always use 'use strict;'. It helps prevent single errors from combining into real rats' nests. Database error: DBI::st=HASH(0x239094)-bind_param(...): attribute parameter

Re: Mixing select and print statements using DBI, DBD::Sybase

2005-02-10 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting David Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Michael: You write: Theoretically yes - at least for queries (select statements). Print and raiserror statements *should* normally be sent back in the same way as you'd get them in isql, but you may be seeing buffering differences where the

Re: What happened to dbish?

2005-02-05 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 02/04/2005 10:38 PM, Jeff Macdonald said: It seems it is no longer included, and scanning the Changelogs doesn't give me a clue why. Is there a better alternative? http://search.cpan.org/~tlowery/DBI-Shell/ From DBI/Changes: =head2 Changes in DBI 1.34,28th February 2003 ... Removed old

Re: problems building DBD::Oracle 1.16 - help - please

2005-02-04 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting Adam Stoller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 3, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Adam Stoller wrote: For the record - incompatible in this case apparently means that we had a 64-bit version of the library (client installation) on the machine where everything else was 32-bit (gcc, perl, etc.) - and has

Re: get one column

2005-01-28 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/28/2005 03:55 AM, Ing. Branislav Gerzo said: Hi all! I have subroutine, that checks, if I already have in DB specified row: sub image_exist { my ($id, $date) = @_; #id is _always_ number my $sth = $mydbh-prepare_cached(select ID from pic where id = ?); $sth-execute($id); my

Re: CAN-2005-0077

2005-01-28 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting Thomas L Shinnick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 09:26 1/28/2005, Peter J. Holzer wrote: I just read a Debian advisory about CAN-2005-0077, A link would have been nice... http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0077 says under review

Re: how to retrieve data from postgresql database

2005-01-27 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/28/2005 12:51 AM, sudheer raghav said: when am running this program with command perl dh.pl it is working fine.But whenever i run it on web browser it is not retrieving records from database. This is not a DBI issue. Go to http://search.cpan.org/~adesc/DBI-FAQ/FAQ.pm then search for 4.4

Re: DBD::Oracle

2005-01-25 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/25/2005 01:29 AM, Waghmare, Satish (IE03x) said: Please help me to know how to I download the DBI packages from FTP site. I'm using ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8 on Win-XP system. Please see below Error log: C:\Documents and Settings\SatishWppm install

Re: how to connect postgres database

2005-01-21 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/21/2005 06:59 AM, sudheer raghav said: am new to perl. how to connect postgresql database to perl. I replied to an identical message from you dated 01/17/2005 11:43 PM with: = Please look at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . For DBI,

Re: Truncating trailing spaces - looking for alternative solutions

2005-01-21 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting Chad Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Having the notorious problem where trailing spaces are being truncated from bind variables. I have found two solutions, one is to rtrim the column in the SQL statement, the other is to set the type to CHAR with bind_param. The problem is, I will be

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

Re: how to connect postgresql database with perl

2005-01-18 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/17/2005 11:43 PM, sudheer raghav said: Please look at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . For DBI, http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI/DBI.pm http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI/ http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI/lib/DBI/FAQ.pm For DBD::Pg,

Re: DBD::Oracle

2005-01-17 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/17/2005 05:02 AM, Waghmare, Satish (IE03x) said: Send me the PPM package for DBD::Oracle.Activestate 5.8 http://ftp.esoftmatic.com/DBI/ -- Mac :}) ** I usually forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give

Re: DBD Oracle DBI driver

2005-01-17 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/17/2005 12:04 PM, Moreno, Javier said: Does anyone know of a repository where I can find DBD::Oracle? I have tried the ActiveState default repository but it reports it is not available. It would be worthwhile for you to read the responses sent to you before you ask the same question again.

Re: Which ORACLE_HOME was used to build DBD?

2005-01-12 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/12/2005 06:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have a Redhat box with 2 ORACLE_HOMEs. DBI and DBD_Oracle have both been installed. How can I tell which ORACLE_HOME was used to build the DBD? Call oraenv for each environment and try connecting to a database through each. If one fails, don't

Re: Unable to obtain a TAR-able binary image of DBI

2005-01-11 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/10/2005 04:32 PM, Jacob Salomon said: I have no trouble building perl 5.8.0 and the DBI 1.4.6 module on a development system with a compiler (and having just untarred into a virgin directory). I wish to create a TAR-able image so I can also install it on a box with no compiler. Following

Re: Upgrading Perl and Solaris on a unix box

2005-01-11 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/11/2005 07:26 AM, ruimvelds said: I have inherited a Unix box with solaris 5.7 and Perl 5.6.0 installed. It was created in 2001. I have had problems accessing an Oracle 9i database. One recomendation was to install the 9i client on the box, but the 9i client software only has

Re: Question on DBI connection to Oracle

2005-01-09 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/09/2005 09:00 AM, Reidy, Ron said: The error message says it all. You need to set (at a miniumu) ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID. Read all the README* files in the DBD::Oracle distribution. There's a reason that the standard install sequence for Perl modules includes `make test`. That should

Re: DBI for two database versions

2005-01-06 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/05/2005 11:33 PM, Sam Vilain said: Thilo Planz wrote: The Oracle 10g client libraries used by your DBI should be able to connect to older versions of Oracle as well. So ideally, your 8.1.7 users can use the DBI you already installed. Careful, there's a compatibility matrix there. I vaguely

Re: Oracle-Perl Connection Problem

2005-01-04 Thread Michael A Chase tech
This discussion belongs on the DBI users list (dbi-users@perl.org), so I'm sending this response there instead of to oracle-oci. On Tuesday 04 January 2005 09:47, Sandeep Warikoo wrote: I'm trying the access oracle through perl, but am getting the error ERROR OCIEnvInit. My perl script is:

Re: DBD-Oracle question for Win2000

2005-01-04 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 01/04/2005 10:31 AM, Boris Volf said: I tried installing DBD-Oracle using ppm, and was unsuccessful. Then I downloaded this module from CPAN, and copied Oracle.pm into C:\Perl\lib, but I am still getting the same error., Naturally you are still getting the error, just copying Oracle.pm to

Re: Can't install DBI

2004-12-29 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 12/29/2004 08:05 AM, Bender Eliyahu-Yosef-BEB067 said: I installed ActivePerl- 5.8.6.811-MSWin32 opened MS-DOS window wrote ppm and then install DBI. The respond I got was : Error : No Valid repositories: Error : 500 Can't connect to ppm.Activestate.com:80 Bad hostname 'ppm.ActiveState.com'

Re: DBD::Oracle and m2o.pl

2004-12-29 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 12/29/2004 10:56 AM, Maldonado, Daniel CW2 CTARNG said: Hi there again, this may not be the best forum to ask this question but I don't think there is a DBD::Oracle list available. This is the right place. The DBI list is a good first stop for all DBI and DBD user issues. Does anyone have a

Re: Problems Installing DBD::MySQL

2004-12-24 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 12/23/2004 07:55 PM, Tony McCray said: Thanks Dave, you helped a lot actually. It turns out that I have a file in /lib called libnss_files.so.2. I made a copy of the file and got rid of the '.2' extension. I had to do the same thing with libnss_dns.so. I haven't tested it yet, but make, make

Re: DBD Errors for New Oracle Install

2004-12-23 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 12/23/2004 12:15 PM, Peter Barnett said: We have a new DBD install that is giving us trouble. The perl files are linked from a directory /obase/tools/perl/perl to /usr/bin/perl. The DBD is installed in the /obase/tools/perl/dbd directory. Not much to go on but the developers are very new to

Re: perl module Oracle::OCI availability?

2004-12-21 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 12/20/2004 11:57 AM, Teddy Choi said: Could you please let me know what the status is on the availability of Oracle::OCI ? It isn't in CPAN yet, and I haven't been able to google up a beta version. The version on CPAN is a bit old, or is that stable? http://search.cpan.org/dist/Oracle-OCI/ --

Re: DBI like

2004-12-19 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 12/18/2004 07:55 PM, xaver biton said: how do I use like as bind variables, eg: select * from users where user.tel like '49755%'. could xou make an example? Note: users ne user. http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/DBI.pm#Placeholders_and_Bind_Values http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/DBI.pm#bind_param

Re: dbi packages required

2004-12-18 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 12/18/2004 12:23 AM, govind tarcar said: I am presently working on a project on CGi for my 7sem Cs course Am unable to trace a DBI and DBD-ODBC packages for perl. Tried some sources (ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/DBI.ppd ) but couldnt get it Can u help me and send me the above

Re: Perl DBI Documentation Proposal: Using NULLs in Placeholders

2004-12-16 Thread Michael A Chase tech
Suggested changes {before : after}. On 12/16/2004 09:33 AM, CAMPBELL, BRIAN D (BRIAN) said: Undefined values, or Cundef, are used to indicate NULL values. You can insert {: or} update columns with a NULL value as you would a non-NULL value. These examples insert and update the column Cage with a

Re: Nested query problem

2004-12-13 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 12/13/2004 06:09 AM, Hardy Merrill said: I realize I'm splitting hairs here, and I'm no database expert, but I'm curious about your answer to this - wouldn't this be even slightly more efficient to write the WHERE clause conditions as most restricting first? In other words, SELECT

Re: Cannot insert large files in MySQL from PERL

2004-12-13 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 12/13/2004 09:33 AM, OIT said: I am trying to save windump network trace files in MySQL. The following piece works, and am able to insert into MySQL, but only a small piece of this 50MB file is in there!!! Is that a binary or text file? quote() is not likely to work correctly on binary

Re: database query

2004-12-08 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting dbsavvy2002-perl: HERE IS THE CODE.CAN U PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS. I TRIED %hasha= (); @A=(); @A_F=(); TO UNINITIALIZE BUT STILL DONT WORK #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Win32::ODBC; my($db) = new Win32::ODBC('All Records1207'); my $keya; my $ia=0; my $ifa=0; my @A; my

Re: database query

2004-12-08 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting dbsavvy2002-perl: ... #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Win32::ODBC; my($db) = new Win32::ODBC('All Records1207'); ... sub loopa { ... $db-Close(); ... } loopa (4); printhjgvjyg; loopa (4); While re-reading my original response, I noticed you are closing the database object

Re: DBI use failure with DBI/DBD::Oracle on AIX 5.2

2004-11-26 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 11/26/2004 08:14 AM, Chris Holt said: Thanks , I needed some one to tell me it was definately permissions. It made me look harder at the perms on higher level directories. Now I'll look at my connection problem . Can't connect to data source exua, no database driver specified and DBI_DSN env

Re: DBI use failure with DBI/DBD::Oracle on AIX 5.2

2004-11-25 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 11/25/2004 08:03 AM, Chris Holt said: After being prepped by experiences of others in the README.aix file. I beleive (see below), I have a good installation. But on running my fist test prog I appear to have a permissions problem. This litlle ditty does not fail when run as root, but anyone

Re: Oracle problem

2004-11-24 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 11/24/2004 05:07 AM, Hardy Merrill said: Tim, can you elaborate a little? I've tried to find the referenced documentation but can't. I don't quite understand how a CHAR datatype can cause this problem. CHAR column values are padded with spaces to the length of the column. When compared with

Re: Why wont my script finish?

2004-11-24 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 11/24/2004 06:19 AM, Mark Martin said: I have a very simple script to delete records from an Oracle table : #!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; use DBD::Oracle; $dbh = DBI-connect( dbi:Oracle:database, user, password) or die Can't connect to Oracle database: $DBI::errstr\n; $dbh-do( DELETE FROM TABLE

Re: prepared statement: automatically removed trailing spaces

2004-11-24 Thread Michael A Chase tech
On 11/24/2004 04:55 AM, Steinhauer, Frank (CAM) said: ... What actually happens is that the default binding for DBD::Oracle is SQL_VARCHAR. When Oracle OCI sees that type, it automatically strips trailing spaces leaving '' if that's all there was. Then '' is interpreted as a NULL by Oracle.

Re: compatibilty issue DBI 1.46 dbd-odbc 1.13

2004-11-23 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting nishikant uppal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: can some one help me with this issue when iam trying to install dbd-odbc 1.13 using makefile.the error i am getting is C:\DBD-ODBC-1.13perl makefile.pl DBI object version 1.37 does not match $DBI::VERSION 1.46 at C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoa der.pm line

Re: Fetch the DBD driver type from a database handle?

2004-11-18 Thread Michael A Chase
Quoting Daniel Kasak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael A Chase wrote: Quoting Daniel Kasak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm writing some code that needs to be able to figure out what DBD driver is working with a current database *handle* ( so I can take advantage of more advanced features of some drivers

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