Check to see if you can connect to sqlplus in the command prompt. You should also check the tnsnames.ora entry.
-----Original Message----- From: Mitchell, Louise M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: DBD::Oracle - with ora10g oci.dll Hi, I am having some issues with the DBD::Oracle. I'm running Perl 5.8.7 build 813 from active state on a win2k3 server. I installed Oracle 9.2.0 client. I then installed DBI and DBD::Oracle (1.16), which installs the oci.dll as well as oraociei10.dll. I can connect using sqlplus manually from the command window, but my connection through the dbi fails with the following error: ******************************* DBI connect('irmops.prod.irm','batchrun',...) failed: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified (DBD ERROR: OCIServerAttach) at D:\apps\test\test.pl line 9 ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified (DBD ERROR: OCIServerAttach) at D:\apps\test\test.pl line 10. ************************ This would indicate an sqlnet configuration error. We use nameservers, so I have my sqlnet.ora file properly set up in my 9.2.0 installation under the /network/admin directory. I'm guessing that the 10i oci is not properly configured to understand how to get to our nameservers. I'm a little puzzled and not sure how to handle this error, since the 10g installation is really just a few files in the /perl/bin directory. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, LouiseM
