On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:42:27 -0700 "Adam B. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> tnsnames is found via the "TNS_ADMIN" environment variable.
> 
> I guess i'll just spend my time trying to ensure the same profiles are
> sourced for all my perl scripts.  Currently we have 20 different databases
> or so, some oracle8, some oracle9.  I may keep two copies of the perl
> DBD/DBI module.  One for Oracle8 and one for Oracle9.

For DBD::Oracle, ORACLE_HOME is not used to identify the database to
connect with, it identifies where the client files are located.  If you
always point ORACLE_HOME to the same directory tree, you can still connect
to all the other instances.
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