Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: DBI.pm - Memoryfault(coredump)

2020-11-26 Thread Jared Still
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Re: (Fwd) DBD:Oracle

2020-11-26 Thread Jared Still
ciate it or if > you can point me to someone. >Thanks, >Ajay > >Ajay Kumar > >Applications Developer > > Prince William County Public Schools > > - End forwarded message - > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Eva

Re: Out of memory! Out of memory! Callback called exit at ...

2010-08-12 Thread Jared Still
an indication that the poster has not yet really investigated the problem too deeply. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com

Re: PERL DBI ORACLE DATABASE OUTPUT TO A FILE

2010-05-15 Thread Jared Still
://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:25 PM, tech422 craym...@bu.edu wrote: Hi, I am trying to query an Oracle database

Re: Help on using on *nix and Windows

2010-04-21 Thread Jared Still
. If you want advice on how to use sqlplus in both linux and windows, there is a better forum for that: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com

Re: spammer on dbi-users

2010-03-25 Thread Jared Still
you ask. If someone is a Moderator and allows or denies posts before they are sent out to the list, then he or she can be seen as being responsible for the content. Not so good if someone claims a post is libelous. Spammer *are* annoying. Just hit DELETE Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA

Re: DBD::Oracle - prepare() error on VARRAY types

2010-03-11 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Lyle Brooks bro...@deseret.com wrote: In reading the DBD::Oracle docs, it seems like it is saying that Object Collections are supported, but perhaps I am mis-understanding the docs. Did you try the example in the docs? Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA

Re: using DBI for mutual exclusion across multiple servers

2010-03-11 Thread Jared Still
? If so a much better way IMO would be to use the DBMS_LOCK package that is part of the database. The package has the advantage of automatically releasing a lock when the session ends. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page

Re: using DBI for mutual exclusion across multiple servers

2010-03-10 Thread Jared Still
), or if there are problems that could cause this to blow up. Have you taken care to test in a environment that will push it as hard as production? Have you made sure that some clients disconnect at inopportune times? Just providing a few things to consider. :) Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA

Re: DBD::Oracle for 64 bit windows

2010-03-02 Thread Jared Still
I am using 32 bit Perl on 64 bit servers, as there are some modules that aren't available in 64 bit, such as Win32::Daemon. If you need to do so, just open a 32 bit command window to run the 32 bit installer from. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http

Re: Perl DBI Oracle SYSDBA help/advise please:

2010-02-11 Thread Jared Still
($sysdate) = $sth-fetchrow_array()) { print $sysdate, \n; } $sth-finish(); 1.609 Today is 11-FEB-2010 16:31:48 SYS = Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com

Re: Multiple Oracle clients in same code - no usernames needed

2009-10-30 Thread Jared Still
offered on solving this problem. What I am curious about is why is it a problem? Why can you not use a username and password? Some may say the answers to that question are obvious, but that may not be the case. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http

Re: Multiple Oracle clients in same code - no usernames needed

2009-10-30 Thread Jared Still
Bummer. Thanks for the explanation. I was going to recommend using a password server, but probably not a good idea for multiple personal account passwords. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com

Re: collecting some simple profiling statistics

2009-10-23 Thread Jared Still
::st::fetchrow_arrayref, avg 1.69ms/call # spent 3.40s making 8449 calls to DBI::st::execute, avg 403µs/call* 514 ); 515 #};516 http://search.cpan.org/~timb/Devel-NYTProf-2.10/lib/Devel/NYTProf.pm Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http

Re: (Fwd) Question regarding DBI status

2009-08-10 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:23 -0400, Link McGaughey wrote: ...aliasing each of the column names, but this becomes a maintenance issue when you have alter the selected columns every time there is a change to the table. Personally, I would work on stabilizing the design. Tables frequently

Re: Master / Slave driver?

2009-07-06 Thread Jared Still
transactions (begin, select for update) go to the master. Database is Postgresql. The obligatory question: What are you really trying to accomplish? Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: Setting up ODBC connection on Linux for using DBD::ODBC

2009-06-29 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 15:56 +0530, Dhanashri Bhate wrote: Hi All, I have been working on Windows with Oracle DB and Active Perl and done some DBI coding with DBD::ODBC. Now I need to move things over to Linux machine ( Red Hat Linux 4 and Oracle 10g.) I know this is not really a DBI

Re: Need help for Oracle DBD::driver

2009-06-09 Thread Jared Still
Just when I thought it was as simple as reading the error message... Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Martin Gainty mgai...@hotmail.com wrote: $driver is the driver name, possibly defaulted to $ENV{DBI_DRIVER},and may

Re: Permission problems with installing DBD::Oracle 1.22

2009-02-06 Thread Jared Still
: Permission denied at Makefile.PL line 1516. print() on closed filehandle FH at Makefile.PL line 1517. Looks like you are trying to install DBD::Oracle while logged on as oracle. You probably need to be root. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: Error in DBD::Oracle (1.22) Makefile.PL with filetest

2008-12-22 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 16:08 +0100, pmonsch...@groupe-casino.fr wrote: } My environment is correct : ORACLE_HOME is correctly set and point to and OCI oracle folder (10gR2.4 64bit) This sentence is somewhat confusing. What exactly is the value of $ORACLE_HOME ?

Re: OCIEnvNlsCreate error with DBD::Oracle 1.21 and Oracle 10g client in Cygwin

2008-05-02 Thread Jared Still
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 09:08 -0700, Dunston Rocks wrote: $ENV{TNS_ADMIN}= 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_2\NETWORK\ADMIN\tnsnam es.ora'; # Also tried replacing these with POSIX-Style paths $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_2; $ENV{NLS_LANG} =

Re: Pay no attention to that DBI callback behind the curtain

2008-05-02 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 11:53 +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: I found an interesting use for the (undocumented) DBI callback mechanism recently. You might find it interesting (in lieu of documentation, for now). http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/05/01/pay-no-attention-to-that-callback-behind-the-curtain/

Re: DBD::Oracle and Support for Oracle 8 and 9 clients

2008-04-23 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:43 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to get a general feeling of the community on weather the next version of DBD::Oracle (1.22) should drop support for the Oracle 8 and Oracle 9 clients Though personally I no longer have an 7.x databases to work with,

Re: perl DBI oracle and error ORA 06502

2008-03-23 Thread Jared Still
else fails, read the documentation. Jared -- 6502.sql -- demonstrate common causes of ORA-6502 -- Jared Still -- See note # 20063.1 on MetaLink drop table t6502; create table t6502 ( char_data varchar2(20), number_data number(6) ); insert into t6502 values('100', 1); set serveroutput

RE: make error- ld: Unrecognized argument: -Wl,+b...

2008-03-01 Thread Jared Still
I'm reluctant to build Perl, primarily because there are already 20 other modules that I have already installed into this Perl. Secondly, if I can't build a Perl C module, what luck am I going to have building a whole language. I've made it a standard practice to always install my own copy

Re: multiple versions of oracle and dbi/dbd

2008-02-06 Thread Jared Still
On Feb 6, 2008 8:30 AM, Richard Labutis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one more question: why is not possible to build a universal version? That will likely appear when Oracle provides a universal client. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: DBD::ORACLE INSTALLATION ERROR

2008-02-05 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:52 +0530, Mohammed, Shafi wrote: Hello, I am trying to install DBD::oracle package in my machine. Version? Please tell me how to resolve this issue. I know nothing about hpux, do have extensive experience perusing documentation. A good start would be to

Re: Does changing ORACLE_HOME affect DBI?

2008-01-18 Thread Jared Still
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 09:47 -0500, RICHARD FERNANDEZ wrote: Does moving ORACLE_HOME mean that I need to recompile DBI, or was that information only used for testing during the install? DBI has no dependence whatsoever on Oracle. DBI is DataBase Interface DBD::Oracle on the other hand is the

Re: All tests fail for any other than user 'oracle'

2008-01-17 Thread Jared Still
even better, make sure it's working. tnsping SID On Jan 16, 2008 11:11 AM, Martin Gainty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also make sure the Oracle listener is listening on default Port 1521 e.g . netstat -a | grep 1521 M-- - Original Message - From: Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: All tests fail for any other than user 'oracle'

2008-01-16 Thread Jared Still
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 16:29 -0600, Michael Muratet wrote: I am trying now to get DBD::Oracle working. The DBI install came off without a hitch. The DBD perl build and the make worked OK (logs are at the end). The first attempt at testing failed. I recalled something I had read about

Re: Using q() to define a query

2008-01-12 Thread Jared Still
2008/1/12 Dr.Ruud [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Carville, Stephen schreef: and c.certcrtdate = to_date('%s','MM-DD-') Aaargh, you should always use '-MM-DD'. Except when reality beckons. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: compatibility matrix

2008-01-12 Thread Jared Still
7 and 9.2 are not supported. A 9.2 client cannot connect to a 7.3 database, though a 7.3 client can connect to a 9.2database. We have an app that does this, simply because there is no way around it, unsupported or not. See MetaLink note 207303.1 -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part

Re: TWO_TASK environment variable

2007-09-11 Thread Jared Still
JServer Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production Data Base -- DV2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] SQL -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: [Oracle][ODBC]Numeric value out of range.

2007-07-23 Thread Jared Still
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 12:34 -0700, Paul Simon wrote: Again, setting the sql type to SQL_VARCHAR via bind_param solves the error... Looking back, the problem started when I upgraded the oracle client (including oracle odbc driver) from 9i to 10g. There's something not right here - even

Re: [Oracle][ODBC]Numeric value out of range.

2007-07-18 Thread Jared Still
running your script without bind_param against a different version of the database. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: Duplicate table structure

2007-06-08 Thread Jared Still
, in the future, I'll definitely check it out. dbms_metadata has one nasty flaw - the output must be manually reformatted to be usable. Try using DDL::Oracle, as it does work. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: help with my perl script

2007-04-11 Thread Jared Still
-d -c '[:alnum:]')` ls -l HTH -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: Cannot Install DBD ORacle in Win Xp

2007-03-26 Thread Jared Still
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 00:56 +0530, Samant Kumar wrote: Hello, I am trying to install DBD Oracle from a very long time now. I cannot use PPM as the systems in my company are behind a proxy. I am a novice in both Have you set the HTTP_PROXY environment variable? Have you read the README?

Re: Unix: Oracle User Identified Externally

2006-12-20 Thread Jared Still
::VERSION\n;' or even: $ perl -MDBI=99 DBI version 99 required--this is only version 1.52 at /u01/app/perl/lib/5.8.8/Exporter/Heavy.pm line 121. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: How should I connect via DBD::Oracle to efficiently obtain 2000+ simultaneous connections?

2006-12-20 Thread Jared Still
not used it, but it is designed for your scenario. You do need a test environment that mimics production to really test an implementation of this. http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/network.102/b14212/intro.htm#sthref67 -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl

Re: How should I connect via DBD::Oracle to efficiently obtain 2000+ simultaneous connections?

2006-12-20 Thread Jared Still
requires parsing the data in /proc/PID/maps and determining how much memory is in use. This is what pmap and ps should do. They both double or triple count a few numbers. The point is, you don't really know how much memory you are using if this is a linux box. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle

Re: Oracle Troubleshooter HOWTO on my homepage

2006-09-29 Thread Jared Still
uploaded an Oracle Troubleshooter HOWTO to my homepage, that should help you if you get Can't load Oracle.DLL and similar errors with DBD::Oracle. URL http://www.alexander-foken.de/downloads.html Alexander -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

RE: Oralce10g database compatible Perl version, DBD and DBI -on URGENT Basis

2006-08-25 Thread Jared Still
. Best Regards, Sasikala, GPSy Development Team, HP-GDIC,Chennai,India, Ph:+91-44-3985 3015. From: Jared Still [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:21 PM To: Elangovan, Sasikala Cc: dbi-users@perl.org Subject: Re

Re: Rows returned are out of sync with the request.

2006-08-25 Thread Jared Still
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 16:11 -0700, Stephen Carville wrote: I'm not quite sure how to describe this problem. When I make a call to an Oracle 10g database using DBI and SQLRelay (for connection pooling) I seem to get results from the previous SELECT. Is the Oracle version 10.2? Are

Re: DBD-DBM too slow

2006-08-24 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 11:23 -0700, ManKyu Han wrote: Is there some optimization that I should do? Yes # # This will populate Table # mkUtil is nothing but collection of simple functions like random number generator # and printing time and

Re: Oralce10g database compatible Perl version, DBD and DBI

2006-08-24 Thread Jared Still
. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: DBD::Oracle 1.18 installation problem

2006-08-24 Thread Jared Still
if that is the exact problem here, but that is where I would start. Current versions are 5.8.x. Many folks consider it best practice to install a separate version of Perl for use with database work. Modifying (such as adding modules) the version used by the OS is not generally a good idea. -- Jared Still

Re: DBI Build error in36 line

2006-02-09 Thread Jared Still
House, Leek, Staffordshire Moorlands, ST13 5RG. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: DBD::Oracle build failure...

2006-01-05 Thread Jared Still
Why not just download from ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.3 ? On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:29 -0600, amonotod wrote: Hey all... I've previously built DBD::Oracle 1.15 and 1.16 against Oracle 9i and Perl 5.8.0 and 5.8.3; those builds went flawlessly, I seem to recall. But, my

RE: :Oracle - with ora10g oci.dll

2006-01-05 Thread Jared Still
Not using tnsnames.ora? Using Oracle Names? You are likely running into a bug with Oracle 9.2. There are at least 2 documented bugs for this, probably more undocumented ones. The workaround? Use a tnsnames.ora file. Seriously. There is so far, no fix for it. I've had to do this on

re: Oracle 10g and DBD::Oracle

2005-12-13 Thread Jared Still
It appears that you are seeing the parse done by DBD::Oracle to describe the table. Look at the DBI docs for ora_check_sql. Turn it off and the extra parse should go away. Jared On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 11:00 -0500, Peter Santos wrote: Dear users, I'm hoping to get some insight into why oracle

Re: DBD::Oracle 2nd insert of row into table with 2 CLOBs hangs

2005-12-09 Thread Jared Still
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 15:43 -0800, Joe Slagel wrote: Hi Tim Folks, We've found a interesting problem when inserting multiple rows into a table containing two CLOB columns. The second execute() hangs and Oracle never responds. The execute() hangs only when the character sizes of the two

Re: DBD::Oracle and CLOBs

2005-11-01 Thread Jared Still
. = On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 20:41 +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: Last time this came up (which was recently) Jared Still [CC'd] reported that he'd found several non-perl related references to this error on Metalink. They were related to improper NLS settings. Perhaps Jared, or someone

RE: Newline inserted?

2005-10-26 Thread Jared Still
Though I very much like Perl, sqlplus sometimes is the correct tool to use, even from cron. If you are on at least version 9 of Oracle, it becomes an even better tool, as external tables, bulk binds and the 'FORALL' statement can load data extremely quickly and efficiently. see:

Re: Perl Oracle issue

2005-10-10 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 06:09, Gupta, Razat wrote: I was running DBI on my machine and it was fine. I was accessing remote Oracle servers using DBD::ORACLE. Which indicates that Oracle was already installed on your machine. Otherwise, DBD::Oracle would complain. But when I had installed

Re: Execute failed: ORA-01026: multiple buffers of size 4000 in the bind list (DBD: oexec error)

2005-10-07 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 10:46, Moon, John wrote: The following code produces this error - ORA-01026 - after 2,000 inserts... Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. You should troubleshoot this with the help of Oracle Support if you have it. There are a number of possible causes,

Re: Perl DBI and threads.pm

2005-10-07 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:42, Jonathan Leffler wrote: My understanding is that a Perl with multi-threading where you do not use the multithreading should be as stable as a Perl without the multithreading. However, there's a chance that some modules may not be so happy. OTOH, DBI shouldn't be

Re: Inserting UTF-8 string over 2000 chars to Oracle 10g - error ORA-01461

2005-08-13 Thread Jared Still
This seems to be bug 1400539. See MetaLink document 241358.1 for an explanation and workarounds. HTH Jared On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 01:00, Teemu Kivioja wrote: Hi, Even though character encoding issues have been discussed also here, I still cannot figure out what is going on in my system.

Re: Perl integration with oracle9i

2005-07-26 Thread Jared Still
The current versions of both will work nicely. Both are found on CPAN. All details that are normally necessary are found in the fine documentation that is bundled with the source code. Further details may be found at http://google.com. Jared On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 23:42, Ata Raja wrote: Hi,

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-10 Thread Jared Still
driver://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port/instance I haven't been following this too closely, so my apologies if already mentioned. This connect string is very much like the new Easy Connect Naming method in Oracle 10g. eg. sqlplus scott/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port/service Note that it is not

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-07 Thread Jared Still
I use a (Perl) password server for this. Passwords are stored encrypted in a configuration file. Clients authenticate with the server, and receive a requested password (encrypted) across the network, if the client is entitled. The user authentication is rudimentary, but it works. SSH

Re: it works, but...

2005-07-05 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 17:08, Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido wrote: OK, let's see what I can do. Just taking time from the project to think of rewriting reports is already a luxury, and there's a competing alternative called SQR. I have to test it too and see how much time it takes. Funny, I

RE: Finding out the type expected for a placeholder

2005-06-16 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 09:44, Moon, John wrote: ... jwm wrote IF this is the way you choose to build your update/insert statements please be aware that date formats vary by session... So you would need to either do a to_date function and different mask for each date you handle or set the

Re: storing hierarchical values in db; methods

2005-06-16 Thread Jared Still
Google this: oracle sql Underneath the Mango Tree The URL to an excellent article by Stephane Faroult will be the only hit. If you click the URL, you will need to be a member of IUOG. If you click 'View HTML' the article itself will appear, though not well formatted. Such is the magic of

Re: dbi:oracle win2k ORA-1222 problems

2005-06-16 Thread Jared Still
ORA-1222 is MAXINSTANCES of %s requires MAXLOGFILES be at least %s, not %s which is incurred during database or controlfile creation. Maybe a different error message you are seeing? IAC, an Oracle 9.2 client cannot connect to an Oracle 7 database, so maybe an upgrade of the database is in

RE: LongReadLen issue

2005-05-29 Thread Jared Still
. -Original Message- From: Tantalo, Christopher G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:57 AM To: Jared Still Cc: DBI List Subject: RE: LongReadLen issue Which manual did you FR this from? --- Just Your Friendly

Re: How to store query results in an array?

2005-05-26 Thread Jared Still
Here's a fun and slightly obfuscated method to do that: my $usql=q{select username from dba_users}; my $aryRef = $dbh-selectall_arrayref($usql); my @users = map { $aryRef-[$_][0] } 0..$#{$aryRef}; my $newSql = q{select from users where username in ('} . join(q{','},@users) . q{')}; print

RE: How to store query results in an array?

2005-05-26 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 07:05, Ronald J Kimball wrote: Regardless of the method you use to construct the query, you should not quote the values by hand. This approach will fail if a value contains a single quote, and may make you vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Yes, thank you. A bad

RE: LongReadLen issue

2005-05-26 Thread Jared Still
A little RTFM is in order. Try max(dbms_lob.getlength(mc.mc_long_description)) Jared On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 07:27, Tantalo, Christopher G wrote: I am not totally sure that is the issue. Using sqlplus and TOAD to just do the simple select SELECT MAX(mc.MC_LONG_DESCRIPTION) FROM

Re: Perl Performance Help.

2005-05-20 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 07:21, Ian Harisay wrote: If this takes 2 minutes then your problem is with your database, not Perl. Which means you'll need to look at query optimization. Not code optimization. Your query optimization may also include tuning your database. Things like network

Re: Perl Performance Help.

2005-05-20 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 07:48, Job Miller wrote: a 20k row fetch via an index would be a bad idea. Without knowing more about the data and schema, you can't really claim that. If the 20k rows are from a billion row table that is not partitioned, an index may be a good idea. It depends on

RE: More on closing Oracle ref cursors

2005-05-16 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:57, Michael Styer wrote: Thanks for that. That's definitely the limit I'm running up against. Now if I could only figure out how to close my cursors... Why don't you just close them the same way you opened them: via PL/SQL.

Re: Oracle nested selects

2005-03-17 Thread Jared Still
Maybe an example is in order. DBD::Oracle does support inline views, nested queries, and just about any other form of SQL thatyou can pass to it. My best guess is that you need to use sql_tags ( see the docs ) to explictly state the type of the column generating the error. On Wed, 2005-03-16

Re: PLease remove me from the list

2005-03-17 Thread Jared Still
Click your heels twice and utter the incantion There's no place like home. There's no place like home. On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:02, James B Schmidt wrote: Please remove me from the list. Thank you __ James B. Schmidt, Ph.D.

Re: Cannot Insert into Oracle

2005-02-11 Thread Jared Still
Hi Nelson, Is there an error message or messages the result from this script? For all we know, your failure to commit is just a personal problem. :) Also, you are committing every row. Please stop doing that, your database will love you for it. Just issue one commit at the end of the loop,

Re: problems building DBD::Oracle 1.16 - help - please

2005-02-11 Thread Jared Still
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 07:06, Adam Stoller wrote: Once we fixed that, we found that with ORACLE_HOME being protected (750 directory access) using 'sudo make' wasn't sufficient - and we had to change the access rights on ORACLE_HOME to 755 A better way to do this might be to build a version

Re: Aliases in DBI/DBD

2004-12-25 Thread Jared Still
Or even my $sql=q{select to_char(mf.ROW_MOD_DATE,'MM/DD/') Modify Date from table1 mf} Jared On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 19:10, David N Murray wrote: If you are trying something like my $sql = select to_char(mf.ROW_MOD_DATE,'MM/DD/') Modify Date from tbl mf; then its perl that's

Re: DBD::Oracle problem with include files

2004-11-24 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 06:43, Tim Bunce wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:39:53PM +0200, Doru Petrescu wrote: ... Oracle 10.1.0.3 ... in the end it turns out there are TWO oci.h files one in rdbms/demo and one in rdbs/public I have only one, in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/public. Jared

Re: (Fwd) Perl Oracle incompatibility

2004-11-02 Thread Jared Still
It was working fine with oracle 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 I guess some configuration settings have to be done for my perl to execute the stored procedure written in oracle. So, does the stored procedure work correctly when called stand-alone from sqlplus? My guess is that it doesn't. Here's what may

Re: binding multiple values and retain blanks

2004-10-23 Thread Jared Still
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 14:47, Ravi Kongara wrote: I got to try this in terms of performance. I'm running this program for more than 100 different tables parallelly. So i have to create so many temp tables at a time and populate them with the given data and then run the query by joining with

RE: Slow connection to Oracle 9i

2004-10-23 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 10:16, BAXTER, LINCOLN A wrote: Most people with experience with Oracle know that opening oracle connections is SLOW! Really? I've never noticed. Unless I'm connecting to a database over a slow WAN. Here's a connection time to a database on a laptop through an 811g

Re: Second Request: Link Fails with Personal Oracle8 and DBD-Oracle-1.15

2004-09-27 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 12:01, David wrote: Hi, I have oracle 8 personal edition with OCI80 installed on WinNT. I have DBD-Oracle-1.15 and running in cygwin downloaded in the last 90 days. I also tried versions 7 through 14. perl Makefile.PL can't find the Oracle version number. Not a

Re: DBD::Oracle and ORA-600 [16365] errors

2004-09-24 Thread Jared Still
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 01:47, Tristan Greaves wrote: Hi there Tim, We are using DBD::Oracle as part of our web site here, and are experiencing some Oracle crash issues. We are trying to pin down the cause and I was wondering if you have had any similar issues raised to you. Here are the

Re: Perl/DBI/ORACLE Troubles. Help, please!

2004-09-24 Thread Jared Still
this situation so if it comes up again, I can handle it on the fly. Thanks for your consideration, Jared. Christopher R. Marbach Data Quality Coordinator Pharmacy Analytical Services Kaiser Permanente 8-345-2485 (562) 401-2485 Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/06/2004 09:27 PM

RE: Faster Inserting Code

2004-09-24 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:35, Reidy, Ron wrote: Well, since you're using Oracle, modify your do() and prepare() statements as follows: $dbh-do(sql statement, {ora_check_sql = 0}) ... $dbh-prepare(sql statement, {ora_check_sql = 0}) ... And you will make your DBA happy. Unless I'm

Re: How to use sequences in DBI/DBD::Oracle with bind

2004-09-06 Thread Jared Still
my $start_num = $dbh-selectrow_array( select my_id_seq.nextval from dual); my @seq = ( $start_num..100,000 ); # some end number $sth-prepare ( insert into foo (my_id, data) values (?,?) ); $sth-bind_param( 1, shift(@seq) ); $sth-bind_param( 2, bar); $sth-execute(); the 'select from

RE: How to use sequences in DBI/DBD::Oracle with bind

2004-09-06 Thread Jared Still
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 07:36, Reidy, Ron wrote: Use a before insert trigger to populate the column. Triggers have the cachet of being a neat way to automatically populate key columns, and I have used them many times myself. They are also much slower than the posters original code. Jared

Re: Perl/DBI/ORACLE Troubles. Help, please!

2004-09-06 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm new to the list and am experiencing an issue that I hope some of you all have dealt with previous and can lend me some advise on.. or supply a possible fix. Perl 5.6.1 with DBI module 1.32 operating on AIX 4.3. I'm

Re: ANNOUNCE: DBD::Oracle 1.16 release candidate 7 - request for testing

2004-08-28 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 16:55, Tim Bunce wrote: An even more mature, and hopefully even more final, release candidate of DBD::Oracle 1.16 is available for testing at: http://homepage.eircom.net/~timbunce/DBD-Oracle-1.16-rc7-20040826.tar.gz Nice one Tim! It now finds the 10g libs. Jared

Re: bind_param place holder

2004-08-20 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 08:14, Xinyu Wen wrote: I have a query like this: select a from some_table where b in (?); I neet to bind 1000 items for b which likes: select a from some_table where b in ('abc','bcd','acd',x1000); how can I bind this many parameters without actually put

Re: fetch entire table

2004-08-16 Thread Jared Still
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 11:53, Harald Fuchs wrote: Why do you want to use Perl for that? Every DB has some export feature that's optimized for exactly what you ask for. You are obviously not an oracle user. Jared

Re: Re:fetch entire table

2004-08-16 Thread Jared Still
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 11:05, charlie cs wrote: The following perl script will dump entire table to a flat file, much faster than sqlplus spool. I don't believe Oracle was mentioned. Please test it in your case and let me know your result. It will be even faster with $dbh-{RowCacheSize} =

Re: ANNOUNCE: DBD::Oracle 1.16 release candidate 6 - request for testing

2004-08-14 Thread Jared Still
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 15:32, Tim Bunce wrote: A mature, and hopefully final, release candidate of DBD::Oracle 1.16 is available for testing at: http://homepage.eircom.net/~timbunce/DBD-Oracle-1.16-rc6-20040807.tar.gz RH 8.0 Oracle 10.1 DBI 1.42 I found that 1.16 could not determine the

Re: DBD::Oracle 1.15 install problems

2004-08-14 Thread Jared Still
See comments inline: On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 12:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya, I just finished installing oracle 9.2i on Redhat 9 (Complete client software group) and now I am trying to install DBD:Oracle. It isnt going to well. My Environment variables are all set.. Oracle_home,

Re: fetch entire table

2004-08-14 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 09:34, Xinyu Wen wrote: Hi, I would like to know if there is a better way to fetch an entire table to a file (the file has to be tab delimited) instead of using fetchrow_array function? Fetchrow_array is working fine but slow to work with a big table. Thanks,

RE: Best Way to Auto Increment with Oracle

2004-07-05 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 08:43, Kipp, James wrote: Your program connects via SQL*net to the DB. At insert time, you need to fetch a sequence, so you issue 'select seq.nextval from dual'. Seems harmless enough until ... 1. The select statement must be passed across the SQL*Net

Re: ORA-65285 by $dbh-tables if DBD::Oracle build with 8.1.7 and server is 7.3.4

2004-06-11 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 03:08, Silvio Wanka wrote: Not really. The tip using ALTER SESSION does not works. Yes, it does work. Maybe we must first enable tracing in SQL*NET. No, you don't. Our trace location is not specified in ora.ini, so it should be appear in rdbms/log but does not. We

Re: DBD::Oracle 1.12 Oracle 8.1.6: Unable to connect

2004-04-02 Thread Jared Still
Dug this up, maybe it will help. --- There are a number of issues filed with the same ORA-1019 error, each of which turned out to be related to NLS settings in the environment. In particular, make sure you have set the appropriate ORA_NLS variable in your environment. In 7.3.X,

RE: Why won't my script terminate?

2004-04-02 Thread Jared Still
was blocking. Ronald -Original Message- From: Jared Still [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:41 AM To: Ronald J Kimball Cc: DBI List Subject: RE: Why won't my script terminate? Writers don't block readers in Oracle. Not issuing a commit

Re: Shorter Version of the Question

2004-04-01 Thread Jared Still
Though I'm fairly ignorant of SQL server, it seems to be saying that you have issued a commit that SS is requiring you to begin a transaction with the 'BEGIN TRANSACTION' statement before attempting to terminate a transaction. You might care to peruse the SQL server docs. ... I found the answer

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