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 a client PC to an Oracle DB using Oracle's sqlplus. All is well and good until I have to test connection to multiple databases on the server. So I am hoping to use a Perl script that I can use which will parse some sort of config file that contains hostname.tns_alias combination and then test connection to the Oracle DB and run a simple SQL like SELECT COUNT(1) from USER_TABLES, if I get an error, that means there is an issue connection to that database, otherwise all is good. At the moment, easiest I can think of using Perl's system command to run sqlplus. Or is it better to look at using DBI? Would be very much appreciated if someone can provide me a simple DBI script to start with if that is the best approach to use. Any suggestion/advice much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
