On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 17:47:15 -0400, Paul Griffin wrote: Hi Paul
> I can connect to an Oracle XE database with dbi:ODBC using : > > $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:PSTORA01", "uid", "pwd") or die > DBI::errstr; user = uid. > But am unable to connect with dbi:ORACLE using : > > $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:PSTORA01", "uid", "pwd") or die > DBI::errstr; user = uid. > Each time I get the following error : > > DBI connect('PSTORA01','system',...) failed: ORA-12154: TNS:could user = system? Why is that? > Im using XP SP2 with Perl v5.8.8 and DBD-Oracle v1.17. Did you compile DBD::Oracle yourself? -- Cheers Ron Savage, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 5/07/2006 http://savage.net.au/index.html Let the record show: Microsoft is not an Australian company