Ilya, this is a life saver, thank you very much!
Jared On Thursday 29 November 2001 07:03, Sterin, Ilya wrote: > There is the latest DBD on my site build with OCI8. > > Issue these commands in command prompt... > > ppm set repository XMLPROJ www.xmlproj.com/PPM > > ppm install DBD-Oracle-1_12 > > > Ilya > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jared Still > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11/29/01 1:02 AM > Subject: Oracle DBD BLOB's and ActiveState Perl > > > > Imagine my dissapoint at the results of running my new script > on Win32 and seeing the message below: > > DBD::Oracle::st execute failed: ORA-00932 inconsisten datatypes > ( DBD oexfet error; e.g., can't select LOB fields using DBD::Oracle > built for Oracle 7 ) > > > This all runs fine on Linux, Oracle 8.1.7, Perl 5.6.1 and DBD::Oracle > 1.12. > > Alas, the win32 ActiveState DBD is 1.06 and apparently compiled with > moth eaten old libs. > > I've found some references in the archives to using blob_read ( ala LONG > columns ), but those are a year old. > > Does anyone know of an alternative to the PPM that is available at > ActiveState? Rewriting is an option ( not a very attractive one mind > you ) > but I don't really want to go that route. It's not a lot of code, but > it's > rather disheartening to use an archaic method to work with new features. > > Only on windoze. > > Sigh... > > Jared
