web server connecting to LDAP server

2002-10-01 Thread Malka Cymbalista
I am looking for software that will allow my web server to connect to an LDAP server, and extract information from the ldap directory. My web server runs apache on a Sun Solaris machine. I do most of my programming in perl and have used DBI/DBD quite extensively. I searched on CPAN to see if th

Re: Anyone use IPC / messaging for sharing DBI connections

2002-10-01 Thread Henri Asseily
> > There isn't. mod_perl and Apache::DBI allow some connection pooling, > but > I'm not sure how it's done. Discussing DBI handles is definitely on > topic. > mod_perl + Apache::DBI doesn't do connection pooling in Apache 1.3. The way 1.3 works is as follows: Each Apache child has its own p

Re: Finding the dbh from a sth?

2002-10-01 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:41:53 -0700 Henri Asseily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an $sth being passed to a function. I want to get access to its > $dbh, from within that function, but the $dbh isn't passed as a > parameter. >From DBI-1.30/Changes: =head2 Changes in DBI 1.16,30th May 20

Re: Anyone use IPC / messaging for sharing DBI connections

2002-10-01 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Thomas Hilbig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The recent discussion on sharing (or not!) DBI > connections among forked/threaded processes leaves me > wanting to know if there is a well-established method > for sharing DBI connections among separate processes.

Re: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread Jeff Zucker
Sterin, Ilya wrote: > Jeff, that's helpful:-) > > but that does not pupulat the excel spreadsheet with data from a select > query, rather you have to select and loop while do()ing it. > > There is lot of overhead for certain things, I just though a simple mod > would help to just dump data, and

Re: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread Michael A Chase
Most of the comments are obvious from the context and BabelFish (http://world.altavista.com/tr) can help without mangling the rest too badly. On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:39:00 -0500 "NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. This is definitely helpful, but the one thing I f

Re: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread Jeff Zucker
KAWAI,Takanori wrote: > $hDbE->func('dump.xls', 'save'); Hmm, forget my patch, I missed that somehow :-(. Actually the one part of the patch you might want to keep is the part that creates a new .xls file if the one in the connect doesn't exist yet. Here's the patch for that part. (Please

Re: (Fwd) DBD-Oracle-1.12 makefile compilation problem

2002-10-01 Thread Michael A Chase
Please note that I am not Tim Bunce and I don't play him on TV. He is very busy and you will get a quicker response if you email the list directly as the documentation tells you to rather than having Tim relay it when he finds the time. On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:16:04 +0100 Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: OT: PostgreSQL mailing lists down?

2002-10-01 Thread jmelesky
On 1 Oct, Jeff Boes wrote: > Sorry. Does anyone here know the status of the PostgreSQL mailing > lists? They appear to have crashed hard somewhere around 9/25 ... pgsql-hackers is up and quite active right now, as they're getting ready for the 7.3 release. I can't comment on the others, but i

Re: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread KAWAI,Takanori
- Original Message - From: "NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:04 AM Subject: Database to Excel script... > I have a MySQL database that I have a few Perl scripts working on. > I am now looking into doing some reporting

Re: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread KAWAI,Takanori
Thank you for your patch, Jeff. I will (and should) update DBD::Excel. - Original Message - From: "Jeff Zucker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sterin, Ilya (I.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; " Kawai Takanori (Hippo2000)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 6:

RE: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread Sterin, Ilya
Jeff, that's helpful:-) but that does not pupulat the excel spreadsheet with data from a select query, rather you have to select and loop while do()ing it. There is lot of overhead for certain things, I just though a simple mod would help to just dump data, and nothing else. I'll also look into

Re: Strange "silent" login failures with DBD::Oracle

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:17:51PM -0500, Jesse, Rich wrote: > Hi, > > A Solaris system that I have little control over is running Perl 5.005_03, > and a DBI_TRACE level 2 shows DBI v1.13 and DBD::Oracle v1.03. The Oracle > client on the Solaris server is 8.0.5.0.0. The Oracle DB we're connecti

Re: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread Jeff Zucker
Ilya Sterin wrote: > >Jeff Zucker wrote >> >>With Kawai Takanori's DBD::Excel (on CPAN). > >Yes, but DBD::Excel allows you to query Excel files, not dump them. Here's a somewhat simple minded patch to DBD::Excel that allows one to create and populate an Excel file with standard SQL CREATE

Finding the dbh from a sth?

2002-10-01 Thread Henri Asseily
Hello everyone. First post here, sorry if this has already been covered elsewhere. I'd be happy to be redirected to other references, but I couldn't find the answer in the usual places. Anyway, the question is simple: I have an $sth being passed to a function. I want to get access to its $dbh

Re: Multiple drivers ?

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:21:53PM +1200, Glen Eustace wrote: > Tim, Is there any thing I can provide that may help resolve this issue. > Now that I don't get perl dieing, would the DBI trace help ? Uh, wasn't paying attention. Sorry. Yes. trace(9), just to me, not the list. Can't promise to spe

Strange "silent" login failures with DBD::Oracle

2002-10-01 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hi, A Solaris system that I have little control over is running Perl 5.005_03, and a DBI_TRACE level 2 shows DBI v1.13 and DBD::Oracle v1.03. The Oracle client on the Solaris server is 8.0.5.0.0. The Oracle DB we're connecting to is 8.1.7.4.0 on HP/UX. After changing the 8.1.7 DB's characterse

Re: Uploaded to CPAN: DBIx::Dump

2002-10-01 Thread Jeff Zucker
Hi Ilya, IS<> JZ<> IS<> Export and convert work on any DBI supported format. To quote from the POD: "DBD::AnyData supports importing any DBI database into memory and can also convert any DBI database into any of the other AnyData formats." It does the conversion a row at a time, not by i

FW: CPAN Upload: I/IS/ISTERIN/DBIx-Dump-0.02.tar.gz

2002-10-01 Thread Sterin, Ilya
Added CSV output functionality. Ilya -Original Message- From: PAUSE To: Ilya Sterin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/1/02 1:51 PM Subject: CPAN Upload: I/IS/ISTERIN/DBIx-Dump-0.02.tar.gz The uploaded file DBIx-Dump-0.02.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/I/IS/ISTERIN/

RE: Post regarding error OCIEnvInit

2002-10-01 Thread Kipp, James
I had to reinstall DBD-Oracle under the new environment. The problem was that some of our DBs are ORacle 8x and some are 9x depending on where they are hosted. So after Oracle was reconfigured on the OS and the oracle env variables were set, DBD-Oracle was reinstalled and it read the updated varia

OT: PostgreSQL mailing lists down?

2002-10-01 Thread Jeff Boes
Sorry. Does anyone here know the status of the PostgreSQL mailing lists? They appear to have crashed hard somewhere around 9/25 ... Even groups.google.com seems to have lost track of them ... the only messages they have are ones posted to Google directly. -- Jeff Boes

RE: Uploaded to CPAN: DBIx::Dump

2002-10-01 Thread Sterin, Ilya
Does it allow you to export it from all databases, or only databases that DBD::AnyData supports? DBIx::Dump works with any db's handle. Ilya -Original Message- From: Jeff Zucker To: Sterin, Ilya Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/1/02 11:52 AM Subject: Re: Uploaded to CPAN: DBIx::Dump Ster

RE: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread Sterin, Ilya
DBIx::Dump :-) https://pause.perl.org/pub/PAUSE/authors/id/I/IS/ISTERIN/DBIx-Dump-0.01.tar Ilya -Original Message- From: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: 10/1/02 9:39 AM Subject: RE: Database to Excel script... Thanks. This is definit

Uploaded to CPAN: DBIx::Dump

2002-10-01 Thread Sterin, Ilya
DBIx::Dump allows to dump DBI result set into a variety of formats like Excel, CSV, XML, etc... Right now, it only dumps to Excel, tomorrow's release will dump into CSV as well, then sometime this week it will dump into XML... If you'd like to see another format, please let me know or submit a p

Anyone use IPC / messaging for sharing DBI connections

2002-10-01 Thread Thomas Hilbig
The recent discussion on sharing (or not!) DBI connections among forked/threaded processes leaves me wanting to know if there is a well-established method for sharing DBI connections among separate processes. While it may be off topic for the DBI list, I can't think of a better use for it than a

RE: DBD-ODBC for Industrial SQL

2002-10-01 Thread Jeff Urlwin
See below. > > > Hi, > > I am using Perl with DBD-ODBC to extract live values from an Wonderware > Industrial SQL which runs on top of a Microsoft SQL Server. > > The platform is Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft SQL Server 6.50.193 and > Industrial > SQL version 7.0.211, Microsoft SQL Server ODBC versio

RE: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread Sterin, Ilya (I.)
Yes, but DBD::Excel allows you to query Excel files, not dump them. Ilya -Original Message- From: Jeff Zucker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 11:37 AM To: dbi-users Subject: Re: Database to Excel script... Sterin, Ilya wrote: > You can easily accomplish that

RE: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)
Thanks. This is definitely helpful, but the one thing I find a bit funny is the comments in the code... I think I recognize it as German, but being a stupid American, English is the only language I actually speak. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread Jeff Zucker
Sterin, Ilya wrote: > You can easily accomplish that by dumpin into a CSV (comma separated file) > with .csv extension which will open in excel as you want. Here's one for the FAQ: How do I use DBI with Excel? With Kawai Takanori's DBD::Excel (on CPAN). It provides a DBI interface on top of

RE: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)
Yes. I also am using phpMyAdmin for some queries, but I am actually looking to create a cron job that will run a monthly report and e-mail the resulting Excel file to a couple of individuals. I am able to do all of this manually at this time, but I would really like to automate the process i

Re: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread Andreas Schmitz
Here we go: > > I have a MySQL database that I have a few Perl scripts working on. > I am now looking into doing some reporting on these database tables. I > would really like to find a script that queries the database and the uses > the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module to output the data

RE: Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread Sterin, Ilya
You can easily accomplish that by dumpin into a CSV (comma separated file) with .csv extension which will open in excel as you want. Ilya -Original Message- From: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: 10/1/02 9:04 AM Subject: Database to Excel script... I have a My

DBI FAQ mirror (http://trantor.jsbsystems.com/DBI-FAQ/ )

2002-10-01 Thread Sterin, Ilya
Our first mirror, thanks to David Murray. We really appreciate your help. Ilya Sterin

Database to Excel script...

2002-10-01 Thread NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)
I have a MySQL database that I have a few Perl scripts working on. I am now looking into doing some reporting on these database tables. I would really like to find a script that queries the database and the uses the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module to output the data directly to an Excel fi

DBD-ODBC for Industrial SQL

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Riber
Hi, I am using Perl with DBD-ODBC to extract live values from an Wonderware Industrial SQL which runs on top of a Microsoft SQL Server. The platform is Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft SQL Server 6.50.193 and Industrial SQL version 7.0.211, Microsoft SQL Server ODBC version 3.70.0961. When I use: DB

Old FAQ is now transfered to new DBI FAQ

2002-10-01 Thread Sterin, Ilya
Thanks to a wonderful volunteer who came forward (David Crown) the old FAQ has now been uploaded into the new DBI FAQ www.xmlproj.com/cgi/fom.cgi You can now update your bookmarks, as the new FAQ contains all of DBI FAQ currently available. Ilya Sterin

RE: Build failure

2002-10-01 Thread rob . leadbeater
PPM is used to install prebuilt modules - you don't need to do make the software. In order to install the latest versions of DBI and DBD-ODBC as Jeff advised you need to set the repository to point other than at Activestate before doing the install: At a command prompt type PPM: PPM> set r

DSN properties at Script Level.

2002-10-01 Thread Janarthanan, Prasanna
Hi all. DBD:ODBC installed and worked well after upgrading to 1.30. Anyway, Editing the makefile was important to make it work as suggested by jeff. Thanks a lot for the (long) support. I have one more query over the list. Can i specify the server_name and Database_Name in the perl script rathe

RE: Build failure

2002-10-01 Thread Tristan Cole
Oh ok so run the make commands etc in the ppm install console. Will give that a try. Do you have any ideas on my other problem. On another note what I would really like to do is access my SQLserver database via tcp/ip comms from a remote raq server running perl. Is this possible and if so

Attn: Tim Bunce - DBD-Oracle-1.12 Errors

2002-10-01 Thread Noble, Ian
Tim,       Attached is the output, according to the README, of errors I'm getting while compiling DBD-Oracle-1.12.  Is there a solution to the compiler errors?  Thanks.   Ian   Ultra 5, 198RAM, 20GB and 4GB drives Solaris 9 from www.sun.com Perl 5.8 precompiled from www.sunf

RE: DBI-FAQ Volunteer needed to transfer old DBI::FAQ data to new FAQ

2002-10-01 Thread Sterin, Ilya (I.)
Well, actually David Crown is already doing this:-) Michael if you'd like to help him out, please contact him. What we'll need help with is later properly editing and categorizing this stuff, as some of it needs some major updating. I have not yet forwarded the changes to FAQ email to go to t

RE: database connectivity in cgi-perl script

2002-10-01 Thread Jeff Urlwin
Try searching for your answer in the DBI FAQ www.xmlproj.com/cgi/fom.cgi first. Then, if that doesn't help, post the error information, version of perl, version of DBI, version of DBD::ODBC along with the code again. Regards, Jeff > > Hi > > I am trying database connectivity using DBI/ODBC thru

Re: database connectivity in cgi-perl script

2002-10-01 Thread Joe Raube
What is the error that you get? > when i run the perl file thru command > >perl test.pl it gives me reult but when i run it on server > >using > http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.pl it gives error. __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC

Re: FW: DBD::Profile meets Devel::DProf?

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:24:52PM -0600, Sterin, Ilya wrote: > Forwarding to dbi-dev. This is where it belongs. Actually for the initial discussion dbi-users is probably the best place to explore what's needed. After that dbi-dev would be better for the detailed design work. Tim. > Sam: Subsc

Re: DBI::Profile meets Devel::DProf?

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:27:38PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote: > Hello all. I'm thinking about creating a DBI::Profile subclass to enable > profiling of database queries in large Apache/mod_perl applications. Excellent. I was hoping someone would. > Here's my plan: > > - At runtime, instead of

Re: Request for Review (RFR): Connections and forked/threaded processes

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:01:54PM -0400, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:56:20 +0100, Tim Bunce spaketh: > >On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 06:37:01PM -0400, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > > [snippage] > > >Q: How do I share a database handle between a parent and its child > >process? ?

Re: Multiple drivers ?

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Bunce
Stack trace - from the core file. Not a DBI trace log. Tim. On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:21:53PM +1200, Glen Eustace wrote: > Tim, Is there any thing I can provide that may help resolve this issue. > Now that I don't get perl dieing, would the DBI trace help ? > > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 10:11, Gl

Re: DBI-FAQ Volunteer needed to transfer old DBI::FAQ data to new FAQ

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:58:28PM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:34:17 -0600 "Sterin, Ilya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In search for a volunteer to transfer the answers from the old FAQ, which > > are not already in the new version and update the FAQ-O-Matic. If an

RE: Build failure

2002-10-01 Thread Tristan Cole
I did originally in attachments, but the server must have cropped them off. I am running Win2k. and perl5 (revision 5 version 6 subversion 1) I am trying to install the DBI-1.25 module. to access databases. On another note what I would really like to do is access my SQLserver database via tc

database connectivity in cgi-perl script

2002-10-01 Thread vikas mehta
Hi I am trying database connectivity using DBI/ODBC thru perl in web page when i run programme locally(standalone not on any server) it works well but when i run it thru server it gives exception while connecting to database.I am using apache server.I am new to perl so can anyone tell whether

RE: Build failure

2002-10-01 Thread Jeff Urlwin
However -- DBI and DBD::ODBC in ActiveState's repository are SADLY out of date. You can get the PPDs and tar.gz files from: ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI Regards, Jeff > > OK. If you're using Windows, then you shouldn't need to make anything. > If you haven't already, get hold of Activ

(Fwd) DBD-Oracle-1.12 makefile compilation problem

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Bunce
- Forwarded message from Namita C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Originating-IP: [209.244.239.181] From: "Namita C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DBD-Oracle-1.12 makefile compilation problem Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 03:44:2

RE: Build failure

2002-10-01 Thread rob . leadbeater
OK. If you're using Windows, then you shouldn't need to make anything. If you haven't already, get hold of ActivePerl from www.Activestate.com, and then use PPM to install whichever modules you need. To access SQLServer you'll need DBI and DBD-ODBC. Regards. Rob -Original Message-