Re: Oracle ping

2012-11-02 Thread Martin J. Evans
On 02/11/2012 11:46, John Scoles wrote: Boy I think I really started something here. I just heard back from OIC connection over at Oracle and here is his two cents on the issue "From an OCI point of view the OCIPing/OCIServerVersion calls are as good as it gets for basic aliveness of the conne

RE: dbi 1.622 with Turkish locale fails to connect to Oracle

2012-11-02 Thread John Scoles
You will have to give us the DBD::Oracle version as well. ORA-12514 is TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor http://ora-12514.ora-code.com/ so I sort of suspect that you lintener and or service is not set up correctly to handle the language or the DB

RE: Oracle ping

2012-11-02 Thread John Scoles
Boy I think I really started something here. I just heard back from OIC connection over at Oracle and here is his two cents on the issue "From an OCI point of view the OCIPing/OCIServerVersion calls are as good as it gets for basic aliveness of the connection. I'd never have thought they would

Re: Oracle ping

2012-11-02 Thread Martin J. Evans
On 31/10/12 16:06, David E. Wheeler wrote: Fellow DBIers, When I wrote DBIx::Connector, I borrowed this code from DBIx::Class to “work around an issue”: sub ping { my ($self, $dbh) = @_; eval { local $dbh->{RaiseError} = 1; $dbh->do('select 1 fr

Re: Minor typo in docs

2012-11-02 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 08:43:18AM -0700, ch...@abacuscc.org wrote: > The apostrophe in "it's" stood out to me. Thought I'd point it out. Fixed. Thanks! Tim.