MCMULLIN, NANCY wrote on 26.05.2004: >Does anyone know why this script hangs when it's executed? It's >probably due to the complex select statement, but I'm not sure how >to make it work. >
>Also, is there a good 'DBI with SQL with Perl' book out there? > John already recommended O'Reilly's 'Programming the Perl DBI'. >================ >#!c:/activeperl/bin/perl >use strict; >use warnings; >use DBI; >use CGI qw(:standard escapeHTML); >print ("Content-type: text/html\n\n"); >use vars qw($dbh); >my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:Oracle:db', 'user', 'pw'); You're missing a server name here: my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:Oracle:$db:$server", $username, $password, { RaiseError => 1 }); But since you're on Windows, I am not sure if this is your problem. Try 'localhost' as the server name if the Oracle DB is running on your machine. >my $Command = "select cl.c_oac_oban, cd.c_fund_code, > cd.d_doc_nbr, > cd.ie_dollar_amt, > cd.d_cost_cd, > cd.d_coc > from cpas_difms cd, cpas_load cl > where cd.ie_proc_cd='1' > and cl.ie_infile = cd.ie_infile > and cl.ie_seq_nbr = cd.ie_seq_nbr > union all > select gl.g_oac || gl.g_asn_oban oac_oban, gd.g_fund_code, > gd.d_doc_nbr, > gd.ie_dollar_amt, > gd.d_cost_cd, > gd.d_coc > from gafs_difms gd, gafs_load gl > where gd.ie_proc_cd='1' > and gl.ie_infile = gd.ie_infile > and gl.ie_seq_nbr = gd.ie_seq_nbr"; >my $sth = $dbh->prepare($Command); >my $rc = $sth->execute; You do not need to assign the result of $sth->execute unless you want to use it somewhere. >while (my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array) > {print "<br> $row[0] $row[1] $row[2] $row[3] $row[4] $row[5]\n";} >$sth->finish; >exit(0); HTH. Jan -- These are my principles and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>