Re: Good Book on PostgreSQL?

2001-03-10 Thread Joe Brenner
Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Matthew Tedder wrote: > > Can someone recommend to me a good book on PostgreSQL? > Depends what level you're coming at it from. I have "PostgreSQL, > Introduction and Concepts" (Addison Wesley), and it's a good book, but > quite b

RE: Good Book on PostgreSQL?

2001-03-10 Thread Sterin, Ilya
There is an Eddison Wesley book that just came out a few weeks ago which is great but not for real beginners, but if you have any db experience you should do fine, since it's a tutorial as well as a full reference, and even includes most of the popular API's available with example code. Go to Eddi

Re: problem with format of returned oracle dates for text file outpu t

2001-03-10 Thread Colin Meyer
Pauline, On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:09:27PM -0500, Price, Pauline wrote: > Hello, > > I am a recent returnee to the Perl fold. I last used perl 4 and sybperl. > Now several years later I am using the latest perl and DBI. Obviously > I am quite new to the current environment. I have the foll

Re: Reusable code for binding columns.

2001-03-10 Thread Michael A. Chase
See below. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private database questions to the DBI mail lists. ** Give a hobbit a fish and he'll eat fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he'll eat fish for an age. - Original Message - From: "Matthew O. Persico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good Book on PostgreSQL?

2001-03-10 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Matthew Tedder wrote: > > Can someone recommend to me a good book on PostgreSQL? > Although I am mostly a DB2 fan, PostgreSQL will enable me to offer my > healthcare apps to low-cost centers such as Hospices and low-income > community medical facilities of various sorts. Th

Good Book on PostgreSQL?

2001-03-10 Thread Matthew Tedder
Can someone recommend to me a good book on PostgreSQL? Although I am mostly a DB2 fan, PostgreSQL will enable me to offer my healthcare apps to low-cost centers such as Hospices and low-income community medical facilities of various sorts. The value in this is getting a new app tested and matu

Re: Reusable code for binding columns.

2001-03-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Steve" == Steve Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> Thanks to all for the further discussion on this. After this Steve> tonight, going back to my original question about reusable code Steve> for binding columns, this makes for a slicker solution than I Steve> even though would come f

Problem with ODBC Connection to dBase IV

2001-03-10 Thread Eric Robertson
I have used basic Perl quite extensively but I'm new to DBI and I'm having problems connecting to an old dBase IV database using a dbi:ODBC connection. I'm running Windows 2000 Professional and have set up a DSN to connect to my target database using the Data Sources (ODBC) applet in the Windows

Errors compiling DBD::Oracle

2001-03-10 Thread Simon Crute
Hi, I've got some error reports from testing DBD::Oracle. and the test scripts asked me to post the stuff here. The system that compiled DBD::Oracle is. Redhat 6.2 out of thebox. Perl 5.6 stable compiled & installed. Oracle 8.1.7 default install. Connecting via SQLNET to an oracle 8.0.5 databa