If you have a "normal" installation...in particular, your tnsnames.ora
and any whatever other .ora files reside in
$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/. Then only $ORACLE_HOME need be supplied,
then you can create a connection for every database in your
tnsnames.ora file if you like. If tnsnames.ora resides somewhere
else, then $TNS_ADMIN needs to point to the directory containing that
file. I suggest that if tnsnames.ora doesn't contain aliases for all
of the databases you need to connect to, then add them to it. If you
can't and your DBA won't, then make a copy that you own and point
TNS_ADMIN to its location. (The pitfall here is that if the DBA adds
or changes anything in the master copy, you won't get the
change...much better to have the DBA add them.)
my $this_dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Oracle:this_sid',$this_user,$this_password);
my $that_dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Oracle:that_sid',$that_user,$that_password);
On 11/29/06, Barksdale, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You could try specifying the host and sid in the connect string.
That way you only need ORACLE_HOME defined, nothing else.
Something like this:
my $dsn = 'dbi:Oracle:host=grill-name;sid=pork-roast;port=1525';
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From: Malka Cymbalista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 2:28 AM
To: modperl@perl.apache.org; dbi-users@perl.org
Subject: Connecting to more than one oracle database
I am running Apache 2.0.55 with mod_perl 2.0.1 and Perl 5.8.1 on
a Sun Solaris machine. I am using DBI/DBD to connect to an Oracle
database. I am running DBI 1.39 and DBD-Oracle 1.16.
In order to connect to an oracle database on a different machine
I have a tnsnames.ora file with the appropriate definition. I also have
a file startup.pl with the following information:
$ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = '/usr/local/ora9i/9.2.0';
$ENV{ORACLE_SID} = 'asdb';
$ENV{TWO_TASK} = 'asdb';
$ENV{TNS_ADMIN} =
'/usr/local/ora9i/9.2.0/network/admin/DEV_wiccdb';
In httpd.conf I have the line
PerlRequire "/www/httpd/conf/startup.pl"
I am currently connecting to an oracle database on a different
machine and everything is working fine. I would now like to connect to
another oracle database on another machine. My problem is how to define
my environment variables. ORACLE_HOME and TNS_ADMIN do not seem to be a
problem since I assume they can be the same. However, how do I define
ORACLE_SID and TWO_TASK so that they allow connecting to 2 different
databases on 2 different machines?
Thanks for any help.
Malka Cymbalista
Webmaster, Weizmann Institute of Science
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