Thx I left your book in Missouri:( Now I'm trying to simulate a database with
hanging connections to test the script. Anyone know how best to simulate that? 

Dave
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:43:29PM -0800, Jared Still wrote:
> 
> Gee Dave, I know of a book that has scripts that
> already do this.  ;)
> 
> Here's an untested bit of code to demonstrate.
> 
>    my $dbh;
> 
>    eval {
> 
>       local $SIG{ALRM} = sub {
>          die "connection timeout\n";
>       };
> 
>       alarm 60;
> 
>    $dbh = DBI->connect(
>      'dbi:Oracle:' . $db,
>      $username, $password,
>      {
>          RaiseError => 1,
>          AutoCommit => 0,
>       }
>    
>    );
> 
>    };
> 
>    # the alarm reset must be outside the eval{}
>    alarm 0;
> 
> I say untested cuz I simplified it a bit after lifting
> it from a script.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jared
> 
> On Monday 13 January 2003 15:49, David Turner wrote:
> > Does anyone have some perl code that will return an error if it take longer
> > than a certain number of seconds to connect to or return the results from a
> > database? I'd like to have some of my queries connect to an alternate
> > database if there is a problem connecting or returning results within 10
> > seconds. Any other suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> > Dave
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