Re: joining > 2 tables with differing # of rows while using binding columns

2001-04-20 Thread Michael Peppler
Michelle Kobza-Road Runner writes: > Hi, > > I am trying to pull date from 3 different tables to generate a specifically > formatted text file. I can successfully join two tables using the ANSI LEFT > JOIN, but when I try to add a third this does not work. I have than moved to > using the o

Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?

2001-04-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "M.W. Koskamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> When I try to use $sth->errstr, for example, from within my classes, I >> get a reference error. >> >> or croak "DB Error: $this->errstr\n"; >> >> $sth->execute() >> or croak "DB Error: $sth->errstr\n"; mwk> The arrow isnt interp

joining > 2 tables with differing # of rows while using binding columns

2001-04-20 Thread Michelle Kobza-Road Runner
Hi, I am trying to pull date from 3 different tables to generate a specifically formatted text file. I can successfully join two tables using the ANSI LEFT JOIN, but when I try to add a third this does not work. I have than moved to using the older perl script " from a,b,c" . This seems to join

Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?

2001-04-20 Thread M.W. Koskamp
> > There is one issue left: > > When I try to use $sth->errstr, for example, from within my classes, I > get a reference error. > > or croak "DB Error: $this->errstr\n"; > > $sth->execute() > or croak "DB Error: $sth->errstr\n"; > DB Error: MyDB::DB::st=HASH(0x82e78a0)->err

Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?

2001-04-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "M.W. Koskamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mwk> I have the same problem. Possibly a feature of the mailinglist. mwk> You have to choose reply all, to get it in the mailing list cause mwk> hitting reply only, will send it to just the private email mwk> adress. After that you will recei

RE: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?

2001-04-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Steve Sapovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ss> It's not that hard. I subclassed it for the purpose of allowing ss> logical database names that we map to the real DBI resource ss> strings. Among other things, that gives us one place to change ss> where a given database/schema really

Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?

2001-04-20 Thread M.W. Koskamp
- Original Message - From: Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: M.W. Koskamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: dbi-users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 12:04 AM Subject: Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI? > This is annoying; that's twice today I've received a private email from > s

Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?

2001-04-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
This is annoying; that's twice today I've received a private email from someone on the list, with just me in the headers, only to have it show up later with _both_ me _and_ the rest of the list in the headers. Is this a "feature" of the dbi-users list somehow? It's a pain, since by the time I ge

Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?

2001-04-20 Thread M.W. Koskamp
- Original Message - From: Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 5:56 PM Subject: Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI? > %% "M.W. Koskamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > mwk> sub connect{ > mwk> my $class = shift; > mwk> my $class

Re: CSV ? Question...

2001-04-20 Thread Ian Hobson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicolas JOURDEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Hi, > >I'd like to do something using DBD::CSV, it's like a good system but >does he understand DELETE, UPDATE, DROP reuquest (in sql statement...) ? > >There's no information about this kind of things > DELETE and UP

Re: Help needed - non-standard config

2001-04-20 Thread Ian Hobson
In article <000901c0c994$4aaf0220$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, M.W. Koskamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >What folders did you make to put the files in? None. I saw that @INC included "." so I put the .pm files in the cgi-bin directory. Then the error messages changed from "can't find module" to can't find

Re: CSV ? Question...

2001-04-20 Thread Paul A. Chernoch
I have only used DBD::CSV a little, but discovered the following: o SELECT works o DROP table works o DELETE works o UPDATE works o APPEND works No real field data type info is preserved. Dates are treated like text. A missing column at the end of a record is treated as a NU

Re: Question: CAN I use DBI to connect to MS SQL via a unix system?

2001-04-20 Thread Michael Peppler
Everett Hickey writes: > I've torn through website after website, faq after faq, and the man page for DBI... >searched CPAN, search engines, and interrogated a number of books, people, and >inanimate objects. So far only inanimate objects have been hurt in the process... so >far... > >

Solved problem: DBD-Oracle/Solaris 2.6/Perl 5.00503/Oracle 8.1.6

2001-04-20 Thread Agamemnon Kaimakis
Hi dbi-users, I just want to share with you the solution to the famous "Solaris patch" problem that finally worked for my system. I support a production system on Solaris 2.6 which was recently upgraded to Oracle 8.1.6, OAS 4.0.8.2, Perl 5.005_03, DBI 1.15 and DBD 1.06 (also Oracle Developer 6i

RE: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?

2001-04-20 Thread Steve Sapovits
It's not that hard. I subclassed it for the purpose of allowing logical database names that we map to the real DBI resource strings. Among other things, that gives us one place to change where a given database/schema really is. I'm attaching that code so you can see what you have to do to su

Re: modperl/ASP and MVC design pattern

2001-04-20 Thread Brett W. McCoy
Sorry, sent that to the wrong list. Should have gone to mod_perl. -- Brett On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Brett W. McCoy wrote: > > this is very interesting ... and another good reason to buy the > > PerlCookBook. But are there in the mod_perl architecture some > > guidelines and/or frameworks that enco

Re: modperl/ASP and MVC design pattern

2001-04-20 Thread Brett W. McCoy
> this is very interesting ... and another good reason to buy the > PerlCookBook. But are there in the mod_perl architecture some > guidelines and/or frameworks that encourages the MVC design patern ? I > think that Apache::ASP could be (for example) the right tool, adding > the "forward" feature.

Re: Question: CAN I use DBI to connect to MS SQL via a unix system?

2001-04-20 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Everett Hickey wrote: > I've torn through website after website, faq after faq, and the man > page for DBI... searched CPAN, search engines, and interrogated a > number of books, people, and inanimate objects. So far only inanimate > objects have been hurt in the process...

Question: CAN I use DBI to connect to MS SQL via a unix system?

2001-04-20 Thread Everett Hickey
I've torn through website after website, faq after faq, and the man page for DBI... searched CPAN, search engines, and interrogated a number of books, people, and inanimate objects. So far only inanimate objects have been hurt in the process... so far... So maybe someone here can either put m

Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?

2001-04-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "M.W. Koskamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mwk> sub connect{ mwk> my $class = shift; mwk> my $class = ref($class) || $class; mwk> return bless $class->SUPER::connect(@_), $class; mwk> } I don't see how either of these are any different from what I said I already tried in

Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?

2001-04-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Regarding Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?; you wrote: rls> Let class methods be class methods. Instance methods be instance rls> methods. Especially for constructors. rls> Just another guy who has been OO-programming for *21* years, and rls> a member of the "help stamp out ref($class)|

Re: last id with DBI and MySQL OT?

2001-04-20 Thread Chris Winters
* Jeff Thies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010420 11:35]: > I believe there is an easy way to return the last value of an > auto_increment field with DBI and MySQL. (I think this can be retrieved > from the database handle.) What is it? It's actually in the DBD::mysql docs: $dbh->do( "insert into..."

last id with DBI and MySQL OT?

2001-04-20 Thread Jeff Thies
I believe there is an easy way to return the last value of an auto_increment field with DBI and MySQL. (I think this can be retrieved from the database handle.) What is it? Jeff

Implementing something like OLE

2001-04-20 Thread Armando Afa
Hi everyone, I am a web developer and I am developing a website manager tool using Perl, mason and mySQL. In my client interface I'd like to have the posibility of copy and paste object from other aplications like Excel, Word (I mean graphics objects, datasheet and keep thier format). I've lo

Re: DBD::Sybase: the easiest way to fetch a number returned by stored proc?

2001-04-20 Thread Alexander Farber (EED)
Hi Michael, thanks for your reply. Michael Peppler wrote: > If the return status can be more than a fail/success value then I > would fetch it in a normal fetch loop and check the result type > (CS_STATUS_RESULT). Is it reliable to use the string "COL(1)" to fetch that value or will that string

Re: Multiple Connections

2001-04-20 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Amit wrote: > You see I have designed a chat interface in perl which connects to mysql to > store chat transacripts and to show the chat sessions. Eg. Say I am > chatting, I type a message it stores it into mysql. Now, the place where the > chat appears, the page is refreshed

Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?

2001-04-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "M" == M W Koskamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> sub connect{ M> my $class = shift; M> my $class = ref($class) || $class; M> return bless $class->SUPER::connect(@_), $class; M> } Please remove the ref($class) || $class there. That bad meme seems to continue to spread like wil

Re: FAIL T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.15.tar.gz i686-linux 2.2.16

2001-04-20 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:33:52AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > table_info > ok 103 > The stat preceding lstat() wasn't an lstat at blib/lib/DBD/ExampleP.pm line 130. > dubious Thanks. Fixed for the next release. > not ok 75 > Missing directories: .,..,lib,blib,t > Expecting directories lib

Re: Help needed - non-standard config

2001-04-20 Thread M.W. Koskamp
What folders did you make to put the files in? They might also need to be in the root of your website, depends on what the current directory is for scripts. - Original Message - From: Ian Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:06 PM Subject: H

Help needed - non-standard config

2001-04-20 Thread Ian Hobson
Hi All, I have a working site on my test machine, which includes DBI using the CSV drivers. Now I discover that the ISP hosing this will not or cannot provide DBI centrally. I thought I could get round this by placing the modules I need in the local cgi-bin but when I try this I get a "method

Re: Multiple Connections

2001-04-20 Thread Alexander Farber (EED)
Amit wrote: > You see I have designed a chat interface in perl which connects to mysql to > store chat transacripts and to show the chat sessions. Eg. Say I am > chatting, I type a message it stores it into mysql. Now, the place where the > chat appears, the page is refreshed every 5 seconds to ge

Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI?

2001-04-20 Thread M.W. Koskamp
- Original Message - From: James Maes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:48 PM Subject: Re: ISA inheritance vs. DBI? > > > connect > { >my($that) = shift; >my $class = ref($that) || $that; >my $

Multiple Connections

2001-04-20 Thread Amit
You see I have designed a chat interface in perl which connects to mysql to store chat transacripts and to show the chat sessions. Eg. Say I am chatting, I type a message it stores it into mysql. Now, the place where the chat appears, the page is refreshed every 5 seconds to get the transcripts fr

Re: Count on rows returned

2001-04-20 Thread Michael A. Chase
Interspersed. -- 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 eat fish for an age. - Original Message - From: "Reuss, Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Michael A. Chase'" <[