On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 02:36 , Lance Prais wrote: [..] > Does anyone know why I could be getting this error?
not sure - you might want to also re-read http://search.cpan.org/doc/TIMB/DBI-1.21/DBI.pm > Connection String: > use DBI; > > my $connect_string="DBI:Oracle:$SERVICE"; > > my $dbh = DBI->connect(my $connect_string,my $oracle_user,my > $oracle_password, > { AutoCommit=> 0, LongTruncOk=> 'TRUE', PrintError => 1, > ChopBlanks=> 'TRUE',LongTruncOk=> 'TRUE',LongReadLen=> 50000, RaiseError > => > 1 }) or die "connecting: $DBI::errstr"; > > > Error Message: > Can't connect( HASH(0xf696c)), no database driver specified and DBI_DSN > env var not set at ./daily_sr.pl line 19 I think we may have over my'd this.... you are 'declaring variables' in the method call.... Hence sending in uninitialized data into the connect method... how about: #--------------untested---------------------- use DBI; # where did $SERVICE get defined???? my ($service, $user, $auth) = ("DBI:Oracle:$SERVICE" , 'theOracleGuy', 'theOneTruePw'); my %dbi_con_attr = ( AutoCommit=> 0, LongTruncOk=> 'TRUE', PrintError => 1, ChopBlanks=> 'TRUE',LongTruncOk=> 'TRUE',LongReadLen=> 50000, RaiseError => 1, ) ; my $dbh = DBI->connect($service, $user, $auth, \%dbi_con_attr ) or die "connecting: $DBI::errstr :$!\n"; #--------------untested---------------------- boy if that doesn't have template written all over it.... ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
