Re: Announcement/Request for Comments: DBIx::Call

2004-11-29 Thread Thilo Planz
Thanks for the useful feedback, a new version of the module is here: http://perl-pad.sourceforge.net/dbi/DBIx-ProcedureCall-0.03.tar.gz http://perl-pad.sourceforge.net/dbi/ProcedureCall.html Changes: - new name (DBIx::ProcedureCall) - supports :cached for using the statement

Oracle Magazine Editors' Choice Awards 2004

2004-11-29 Thread Honza Pazdziora
The latest issue of the Oracle Magazine came with this year's Editors' Choice Awards. Since I haven't seen it mentioned here yet I thought I'd send in a note that The Open Source Developer of the Year 2004 award went to Tim Bunce The article is available on-line on

RE: Windows to Oracle

2004-11-29 Thread Fowler, Mark
Graeme might be dealing with an 'intranet' situation that DBI has not resolved yet (with respect to a Windows OS). This would apply to both ODBC and Oracle DBDs. Earlier this year Jeff Urlwin made an attempt to resolve this problem, testing on my system (Windows XP/Apache2/PERL 5.8.3) with the

Re: Oracle Magazine Editors' Choice Awards 2004

2004-11-29 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:19:09PM +0100, Honza Pazdziora wrote: The latest issue of the Oracle Magazine came with this year's Editors' Choice Awards. Since I haven't seen it mentioned here yet I thought I'd send in a note that Congrats, Tim! Thanks. (Actually it was mentioned here a few

DBD::Sybase test errors (freetds-0.62.4)

2004-11-29 Thread Jay Hannah
It looks like DBD::Sybase is still working (after forcing the install), but I thought I'd report these test failures. Seeing 86.84% okay is pretty scary. -grin- Thanks! j freetds-0.62.4 # perl -MDBI -e 'DBI-installed_versions' Perl: 5.008004(i686-linux) OS

RE: Windows to Oracle

2004-11-29 Thread Jeff Urlwin
Graeme, You must install DBD::Oracle using either CPAN or ActiveState's PPM utility (if you're using AS Perl 5.6.0). Or ActiveState 5.8.x, using my PPM repository at http://ftp.esoftmatic.com/DBI Regards, Jeff

Re: DBD::Sybase test errors (freetds-0.62.4)

2004-11-29 Thread Michael Peppler
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:56, Jay Hannah wrote: It looks like DBD::Sybase is still working For certain values of working. (after forcing the install), but I thought I'd report these test failures. Seeing 86.84% okay is pretty scary. -grin- FreeTDS unfortunately does not yet implement the

RE: DBD::Sybase test errors (freetds-0.62.4)

2004-11-29 Thread Jay Hannah
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:56, Jay Hannah wrote: It looks like DBD::Sybase is still working For certain values of working. Indeed. The story of my life. -grin- FreeTDS unfortunately does not yet implement the full Client Library API, so there are a number of things that don't work.

RE: DBD::Sybase test errors (freetds-0.62.4)

2004-11-29 Thread Michael Peppler
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 19:56, Jay Hannah wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:56, Jay Hannah wrote: It looks like DBD::Sybase is still working For certain values of working. Indeed. The story of my life. -grin- FreeTDS unfortunately does not yet implement the full Client Library API,

RE: DBD::Sybase test errors (freetds-0.62.4)

2004-11-29 Thread Jay Hannah
Hypothetically*, would you have any interest in a patch to exec.t (etc.) that would use Test::More and the SKIP blocks documented therein to skip tests if $ENV{SYBASE} =~ /freetds/? Sure. Patches are always welcome! I asked because I'd be *changing* how exec.t (etc.) work -- to use

Re: A note about ConceptDraw

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Savage
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:31:00 +1100, Ron Savage wrote: Hi Folks I've added CASE Studio 2 to the list: http://savage.net.au/Ron/html/drawing-tools.html -- Cheers Ron Savage, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 30/11/2004 http://savage.net.au/index.html

unicode (utf8) DBI and MySQL

2004-11-29 Thread angie ahl
Hi List I've been using DBI MySQL for some time now and have decided to try and use unicode so that my web apps can be multilingual. I'm trying to work out getting data into and out of MySQL with utf 8. I'm inserting the data like this: I've got a hash in the following format: my %uni = (

RE: Windows to Oracle

2004-11-29 Thread Graeme St. Clair
Thanks to the various responders. I did issue a newbie alert, and I have to say some of the responses are (way) over my head. 8-( Install DBD::Oracle: yes, but how? It seemed to me that simply placing the CPAN Oracle.pm source in the DBD folder would be a good start, then I would simply add

RE: Windows to Oracle

2004-11-29 Thread Jeff Urlwin
Thanks to the various responders. I did issue a newbie alert, and I have to say some of the responses are (way) over my head. 8-( Install DBD::Oracle: yes, but how? It seemed to me that simply placing the CPAN Oracle.pm source in the DBD folder would be a good start, then I

Re: DBD:mysql driver

2004-11-29 Thread Rudy Lippan
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Tim Bunce wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:11:28PM -0500, Rudy Lippan wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Bruce Martin wrote: Hi all, I am new to the list so forgive me if this was just discussed. I am trying to set up PERL under apache to use a mysql database. When

RE: DBD::Sybase test errors (freetds-0.62.4)

2004-11-29 Thread Michael Peppler
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 21:18, Jay Hannah wrote: Hypothetically*, would you have any interest in a patch to exec.t (etc.) that would use Test::More and the SKIP blocks documented therein to skip tests if $ENV{SYBASE} =~ /freetds/? Sure. Patches are always welcome! I asked

Mysql Sock is gone

2004-11-29 Thread Michael David
Hello, I have done a really silly thing and have accidentally deleted mysql.sock from tmp. I can't seem to find details anywhere telling me how to get it back. I have tried reinstalling/shutting down reloading. Basically I have had a really pain with trying to install DBD mysql today. And this

Re: Mysql Sock is gone

2004-11-29 Thread Michael David
Ooops, yeah great day can anyone give me a some advice on how to get mysql.sock back up and running so that I might be able to

DBIx::DBH - Perl extension for simplifying database connections

2004-11-29 Thread Terrence Brannon
NAME DBIx::DBH - Perl extension for simplifying database connections ABSTRACT DBIx::DBH is designed to facilitate and validate the process of creating DBI database connections. It's chief and unique contribution to this set of modules on CPAN is that it forms the DSN string for