Don't you want SELECT machine, program, SYS_CONTEXT(?, ?),
SYS_CONTEXT(?, ?)...

DBI uses positional binds as opposed to named binds.

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:29, Jesse, Rich wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm trying to get a simple query running in Perl 5.6.1, DBI 1.30,
> DBD::Oracle 1.14, Oracle 8.1.7 on HPUX 11.0 talking to a 9.2.0.4 RAC DB on
> Linux (whew!).  Here's the pertinent part of the code:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> 
> use strict;
> use DBI;
> use DBD::Oracle qw(:ora_types);
> 
> my ($dbh, $sth);
> 
> $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:mysid","myuser","mypass");
> 
> $sth = $dbh->prepare(q{
>       SELECT machine, program, SYS_CONTEXT(:userenv, :ipaddress),
> SYS_CONTEXT(:userenv, :osuser)
>               FROM v$session VS;
> });
> 
> At this point, I get an "ORA-911: invalid character" on the prepare.  I
> thought perhaps the "$" was hosing me in "v$session", so I tried escaping it
> to "v\$session" (along with the underscores and parens) and using "qq"
> instead of "q", but to no avail.
> 
> I knew I shouldn't have unsub'd from the DBI mailing list...
> 
> Anyone?
> TIA,
> Rich
> 
> Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA
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Information Systems & Computing, DBMS 
Virginia Tech 
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