FYI I just found out why DBD::Oracle will not work out of the box or on a compile on a Solaris 64bit computers form HP.
Seems there is a bug in Oracle (What??? never happens?? yeah right!) the bug number is 5389730. Seem that our friends at Oracle forgot to add a flie to a makefile into the 10.2.0.2 Solaris x86 patchset :-). so parts are missing when you try to connect with 32bit perl. With DBD::Oracle out of the box you will get a error like this when you try to connect DBI connect('','[EMAIL PROTECTED]',...) failed: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified (DBD ERROR: OCIServerAttach) at test.pl line 31 If you try to compile DBD::Oracle you may see this error *** Error code 139 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `lib/Config.pod' Hope this helps someone out-there Cheers John Scoles