Re: Changing Multiple Rows Atomically

2001-03-30 Thread Michael A. Chase
If you expect to do this more than once, you should use placeholders. See below. I recommend you not use $a and $b outside the comparison block for sort(), they cause the Perl compiler stage to act in special ways throughout the code if they are found anywhere. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward

Re: Memory leak on local($dbh-{RaiseError})=1 is a perl bug

2001-03-30 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:02:14AM -0500, Ondercin, Boris wrote: Is the workaround setting $dbh-{RaiseError}=0 ? Don't use local() on handle attribute. Reset the attribute value explicitly at the end of the block and in any exception handlers that may catch exceptions thrown from within the

DBD:Oracle connection failure

2001-03-30 Thread A Dsouza
My oracle data base and perl DBI are on the same unix host.But when i tried to connect using $dbhandle = DBI-connect('dbi:Oracle:SHIPDB','userid','passwd'); I get error as DBI-connect(SHIPDB) failed: ORA-12541: TNS:no listener (DBD ERROR: OCIServerAttach) at testoracle.pl line 15A) I know that

ANNOUNCE: DBI 1.15

2001-03-30 Thread Tim Bunce
It gives me great pleasure to announce the arrival of DBI 1.15: file: $CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.15.tar.gz size: 192879 bytes md5: b1e37f03bdbd91451102e1b8e4b093d4 Should reach a CPAN near you in the next day or three. Changes in DBI 1.15,28th March 2001 Added

RE: DBD::OBDC

2001-03-30 Thread Sterin, Ilya
DBI::ProxyServer installs automaticall with DBI. So on the windows machine you must install ActiveState Perl 5.6 www.activestate.com and then in command prompt say ppm install DBI That will install the DBI and DBI::ProxyServer Ilya Sterin -Original Message- From: Vasquez, Mike To:

RE: Win32 DBI Connectivity to Oracle

2001-03-30 Thread Sterin, Ilya
Do you have the Oracle client installed on the machine where you are connecting from? Also look at your connect statement, since after you resolve you problem it will probably fail on the connect anyways. Run perldoc DBD::Oracle and see the connection parameters. You must also include SID.

Re: Win32 DBI Connectivity to Oracle

2001-03-30 Thread Anthony Bouvier
Yes, the Oracle Client (and all SQL*Net software) is installed. SQLPlus can connect just fine, as can any ColdFusion (cfm) application using ODBC. Ah, I knew SID had to be included, sorry for leaving it off. But as you can see the execution is not even getting that far because the connection

Re: Win32 DBI Connectivity to Oracle

2001-03-30 Thread David M. Davisson
Anthony, Which DBD::Oracle package did you install and which version of Oracle are you connecting to? There are two Win32 packages for Oracle, DBD-Oracle and DBD-Oracle8. I had a similar problem when I installed DBD-Oracle instead of DBD-Oracle8. -- Dave Davisson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Win32 DBI Connectivity to Oracle

2001-03-30 Thread Anthony Bouvier
c:ppm install DBD::Oracle It pulled the most recent version (I assume) from ActiveState ppm archive. I am connecting (or more precisely attempting to connect to) Oracle 7.3 (which is on a Unix system). The webserver is IIS on NT. "David M. Davisson" wrote: Anthony, Which DBD::Oracle

RE: Win32 DBI Connectivity to Oracle

2001-03-30 Thread Pettit, Chris L
IUSR_systems name is the internet user alias for IIS. alias is my word, that may not be the accepted term so, IUSR_foo may need access to that directory. Not sure what your doing, but that sounds like a symptom of the error msg. good luck :( keep your ears attached, don't do the vangogh thing,

Re: Help with DBD::Oracle install

2001-03-30 Thread Michael A. Chase
Is cl.exe on the system path? Where is it installed? (there have been reports of problems when it is installed under directories with spaces in the directory names) -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private database questions to the DBI mail lists. ** Give a hobbit a fish and he'll eat fish for a

Re: DBD:Oracle connection failure

2001-03-30 Thread Michael A. Chase
Try setting ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID, clearing TWO_TASK, and using 'dbi:Oracle:' for the connect string and see if that helps. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private database questions to the DBI mail lists. ** Give a hobbit a fish and he'll eat fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he'll

Re: installing with perl 5.6.0 on redhat 7.0

2001-03-30 Thread Michael A. Chase
Most Perl modules have to be able to compile on a wide variety of C compilers. As a result, 'unused variables' may occur; they are not normally a problem. Make sure your account has at least read and execute permission on all directories leading up to DBI???.so. You also need to be able to

DBI:Oracle installation

2001-03-30 Thread ad5500
Hi friends, I am using perl DBI on my Unix user account which has oracle DB installed on the same host. Previously I had an error which said install solaris patch.I read the README.java and used LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libthread.so.1 and set the env var for ORACLE-HOME and ORACLE-SID. But the

Re: Passing args to Stored Procs in DBD::ADO

2001-03-30 Thread David J. Iberri
I probably should include DBI and DBD::ADO versions too: I'm using DBI 1.15 and DBD::ADO 0.4 revision 1.19. My syntax for calling stored procs is exactly what's stated in Programming the Perl DBI: my $sth = $dbh-do("{call ClsAct_getSA('01F')}"); except, of course, that the docs say that passing

Re: ANNOUNCE: DBI 1.15

2001-03-30 Thread MikemickaloBlezien
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:43:22 +0100, Tim Bunce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was wonder if a new Programming w/DBI book will be coming out that will cover all these new changes in the near future?? Hope so :) It gives me great pleasure to announce the arrival of DBI 1.15: file:

Re: Help with DBD::Oracle install

2001-03-30 Thread Matthew Donald Still Kent
I found out the problem, It was an incorectly installed Visual Studio. Thanks for your help. Matt - Original Message - From: "Michael A. Chase" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, March 30, 2001 5:28 pm Subject: Re: Help with DBD::Oracle install Is cl.exe on the system path? Where is

Inserting large text strings into a Postgres DB

2001-03-30 Thread Mike Piatek
I am attempting to insert a large string of text into a Postgres database. When reading the Postgres documentation, it seemed that having a column with type = text would do the job. However, when I tried to do the insert, I hit the 8k tuple limit. I then tried to use lo_creat and lo_write

Question about DBI in a CGI program...

2001-03-30 Thread Nuno Medeiros
hello, I'm new in perl dbi. i have a linux RH7 and Oracle 8.1.7. I want to write a script that runs from a browser. my first script is only to test the DB connection and works fine if i run it from the shell. if i run it from a browser, it does the DBI-available_drivers() but it does'nt

Reproducible bug in DBD::Oracle

2001-03-30 Thread David Nicklay
The problem seems to lie in the fact that I cannot seem to insert a NULL value into a column as a bind parameter. This same thing works fine when putting the NULL directly into the prepared INSERT statement. I have attached a copy of a build I made of DBD-Oracle-1.06, in which I ran the tests

RE: Help with DBD::Oracle install

2001-03-30 Thread Warga, Marco, X., ASCS/US
Hi, 'nmake' cannot find 'cl.exe', Microsoft's C++ Compiler. you seem to try to compile the whole thing with MS VC++ 6, make sure you have the PATH environment variable to the 'bin' directory of MS VC set (there is a batch file usually called VCVARS32.BAT or something installed by VS setup that

RE: DBD::OBDC

2001-03-30 Thread Vasquez, Mike
Looks like I need to setup DBI::ProxyServer on the windows machine before I can do anything. Questions is how to you do it. What do I need on the win2k server machine. I have read the docs. There is no specifics on setting up the DBI::ProxyServer. I must be missing some key understanding of