Re: Script to test connecting to Oracle DBs

2012-08-01 Thread Rob Dixon
On 28/07/2012 02:45, newbie01 perl wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a Perl script or something similar that I can use to test connection from a client PC to several databases on a server. Does anyone know of any such script lying around somewhere :(- Currently, am testing connection from

Cannot connect to Oracle db; script will not run

2012-08-01 Thread Warren James - jawarr
--Beyond some training, I'm very much a newbie to Perl (and this list). So, please indulge me with my first attempt at a posted question to you; please see below (*with the full code Perl script toward the bottom of my email)... -I've been dealing with an issue in a Perl script that I'm

Re: Cannot connect to Oracle db; script will not run

2012-08-01 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi, I've seen: $connString = 'dbi:Oracle:SID' Maybe it helps to add the SID like: $connString = 'dbi:Oracle:SID=SID_NAME' where SID_NAME is the SID you want to use... --Octavian - Original Message - From: Warren James - jawarr james.war...@acxiom.com To: beginners

Re: Script to test connecting to Oracle DBs

2012-08-01 Thread Jens Neu
I am looking for a Perl script or something similar that I can use to test connection from a client PC to several databases on a server. I would use one of the many nagios/icinga plugins for doing so, start here: https://www.itefix.no/i2/check_oracle

Re: Script to test connecting to Oracle DBs

2012-08-01 Thread Leo Susanto
use strict; use DBI; use DBD::Oracle qw(:ora_types); my $user = ''; my $passwd = ''; my $tnsName = ''; $ENV{'ORACLE_HOME'} = 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1'; my $dbh = DBI-connect(dbi:Oracle:$tnsName, $user, $passwd); my $SQL = qq{ SELECT XXX}; my $sth0 = $dbh-prepare($SQL); print SQL is

Re: Cannot connect to Oracle db; script will not run

2012-08-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 31, 2012, at 5:54 PM, Warren James - jawarr wrote: --Beyond some training, I'm very much a newbie to Perl (and this list). So, please indulge me with my first attempt at a posted question to you; please see below (*with the full code Perl script toward the bottom of my email)...

RE: Cannot connect to Oracle db; script will not run

2012-08-01 Thread John Scoles
have a look at http://search.cpan.org/~pythian/DBD-Oracle-1.46/lib/DBD/Oracle/Troubleshooting.pm it should answer most of your questions From: james.war...@acxiom.com To: beginn...@perl.org; dbi-users@perl.org CC: newbie01.p...@gmail.com;