Rich! Take the ending semi-colon off. It's not SQL, but a end-of-statment flag to Sqlplus, which you are not using.
Alan. -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hey all, I'm trying to get a simple query running in Perl 5.6.1, DBI 1.30, DBD::Oracle 1.14, Oracle 8.1.7 on HPUX 11.0 talking to a 9.2.0.4 RAC DB on Linux (whew!). Here's the pertinent part of the code: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use DBI; use DBD::Oracle qw(:ora_types); my ($dbh, $sth); $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:mysid","myuser","mypass"); $sth = $dbh->prepare(q{ SELECT machine, program, SYS_CONTEXT(:userenv, :ipaddress), SYS_CONTEXT(:userenv, :osuser) FROM v$session VS; }); At this point, I get an "ORA-911: invalid character" on the prepare. I thought perhaps the "$" was hosing me in "v$session", so I tried escaping it to "v\$session" (along with the underscores and parens) and using "qq" instead of "q", but to no avail. I knew I shouldn't have unsub'd from the DBI mailing list... Anyone? TIA, Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Alan Gano INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).