Re: Problem compiling/installing DBD::Oracle 1.12 on Solaris 8 / Oracle 9.2.0.1 (ORA-03106)

2002-10-18 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:30:52 -0600 Greg Baumgartel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Made some headway, it does look like something with the Oracle install. > Basically, the ORA_NLSXX (32 or 33, depending on the original DB version) > environment variable needs to be set to > $ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls

RE: Create database

2002-10-18 Thread Andrew Brosnan
On 10/18/02 at 1:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hastie, Christa) wrote: > Have you tried just doing something like: > $dbh->do("CREATE TABLE tablename") or die "ERROR:" . $dbh->errstr; > > I think that would work :) > Let me know... > Yes Christa, something like that will work fine. But I'm looking t

Re: Create database

2002-10-18 Thread Andrew Brosnan
On 10/18/02 at 2:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Zucker) wrote: > Andrew Brosnan wrote: > > Did you try it? This works for me (notice there's no database specified > in the connection): > > my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:"); > $dbh->do("CREATE DATABASE $new_db"); > $dbh->do("USE $new_d

Re: Create database

2002-10-18 Thread Andrew Brosnan
On 10/18/02 at 4:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hardy Merrill) wrote: > What database are you using? Not sure why it would matter, but MySQL. I'm not talking about installing a db program here; just exectuing some SQL like I might from the shell: CREATE DATABASE DatabaseName; > Have you installed t

Re: Create database

2002-10-18 Thread Hardy Merrill
What database are you using? Have you installed the DBI module and the DBD module for your database? Since you referred to "datasource", I'm guessing you're on a Windows platform - is that right? Some more info would be helpful. -- Hardy Merrill Senior Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. Andrew

Re: Create database

2002-10-18 Thread Andrew Brosnan
On 10/18/02 at 2:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Zucker) wrote: > Andrew Brosnan wrote: > > > On 10/18/02 at 4:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hardy Merrill) wrote: > > > >>What database are you using? > >> > > Not sure why it would matter, but MySQL. > > > Yes it matters. This works for me using

Re: Create database

2002-10-18 Thread Jeff Zucker
Andrew Brosnan wrote: On 10/18/02 at 4:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hardy Merrill) wrote: What database are you using? Not sure why it would matter, but MySQL. Yes it matters. This works for me using MySQL: my $existing_db = $your_old_db_here; my $new_db = $your_new_db_here; my

Re: Create database

2002-10-18 Thread Jeff Zucker
Andrew Brosnan wrote: On 10/18/02 at 2:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Zucker) wrote: > ... > Yes Jeff, I thought the same thing. But that won't work for me in this > case. I need to be able to create a new db without assuming that there > is an existing one (or at least I might not know what it

RE: Create database

2002-10-18 Thread Andrew Brosnan
Wow, thanks Christa. Excellent idea, (and a very thorough response!) The only problems is it limits things to MySQL. I was hoping the code could be database independent (excepting of course the driver) This is great. Such timely feedback late on a Friday! This is my first post on this list...Thank

Re: Create database

2002-10-18 Thread Brian McCain
What about $dbh->do() ? Brian McCain PageMasters Internet Group - Original Message - From: "Andrew Brosnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:24 PM Subject: Create database | Hello List, | | I'm looking to *create

RE: Connections happening too fast?

2002-10-18 Thread Levine, Peter W
I don't know why the disconnects wouldn't happen since I am calling dbh->disconnect(). I should check out the number at whicgh it stopped though. The ODBC manager from OpenLink is supposed to be for unlimited connections. I'd like to know if that limit is being reached. Pete -Original Messag

Re: Create database

2002-10-18 Thread Jeff Zucker
Andrew Brosnan wrote: I was hoping the code could be database independent (excepting of course the driver) CREATE DATABASE is not part of either SQL92 or SQL99. They have a CREATE SCHEMA syntax. But, AFAIK, most implementations do have a CREATE DATABASE command anyway. -- Jeff

Re: Problem compiling/installing DBD::Oracle 1.12 on Solaris 8 / Oracle 9.2.0.1 (ORA-03106)

2002-10-18 Thread Greg Baumgartel
Made some headway, it does look like something with the Oracle install. Basically, the ORA_NLSXX (32 or 33, depending on the original DB version) environment variable needs to be set to $ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data However, this can be inconvenient if doing it from a large number of diff

Create database

2002-10-18 Thread Andrew Brosnan
Hello List, I'm looking to *create* a database with DBI. I couldn't glean this from the docs. Seems like you first need to connect to a datasource(database) to issue statements. Is there a way to 'CREATE DATABASE DatabaseName;' with DBI? Thanks, Andrew

Problem compiling/installing DBD::Oracle 1.12 on Solaris 8 / Oracle 9.2.0.1 (ORA-03106)

2002-10-18 Thread Greg Baumgartel
I've been trying to get DBD::Oracle 1.12 working on Solaris 8, with perl 5.8.0, DBI 1.30, and Oracle 9.2.0.1 Unfortunately, the 'make test' is failing, and even if I ignore that, the same problems show up when I try to run scripts that work fine on an older environment, namely, the fetch stat

Re: Any::Data and limit

2002-10-18 Thread Jeff Zucker
Jeff Thies wrote: I'm using a pipe delimited table with Any::Data. This seems to ignore the limit clause in my SQL: SELECT field1 FROM some_table limit 0,2 I would have thought this (limit) would have been part of DBI, is this a function of the driver? Yes, it's driver and database spec

Any::Data and limit

2002-10-18 Thread Jeff Thies
I'm using a pipe delimited table with Any::Data. This seems to ignore the limit clause in my SQL: SELECT field1 FROM some_table limit 0,2 I would have thought this (limit) would have been part of DBI, is this a function of the driver? Which module would limit be implemented? Or have I made s

RE: Problems retrieving CLOB's from Oracle in UTF8

2002-10-18 Thread Orekhova, Irina
Hi, I had the same error retrieving CLOB data when I set client's NLS_LANG to AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8. Here is the part of the trace with the error: OCILobGetLength(026F74D4,026F776C,026F68B4,0140FAC8)=SUCCESS OCILobRead(026F74D4,026F776C,026F68B4,0140FACC,1,01CE0B04,485,,0 000,0,1)=NEE

Re: Connections happening too fast?

2002-10-18 Thread cp
> From: "Levine, Peter W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:52:03 -0700 > To: "Levine, Peter W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Connections happening too fast? > >> On our development system (SunOS 5.7) my program would 'hang' on occa

Re: Problems retrieving CLOB's from Oracle in UTF8

2002-10-18 Thread Tim Bunce
Try http://archive.develooper.com/dbi-users%40perl.org/msg14113.html Tim. On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 05:39:21PM +0200, Joern Reder wrote: > > Hi, > > sorry, the mail got long, but it took me some time to reproduce the > problematic behaviour and I think we need this detail level to > understand

Re: Problem with remotely connecting to db2 database using perl CGI

2002-10-18 Thread Limei Zhang
Thanks very much. I tried your suggestion and it works On 10/17/02 9:58 PM, "Swen Schillig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael > > Did you setup your DB2INSTANCE variable properly with > SetEnv DB2INSTANCE db2inst1 > in the httpd.conf file ? > Maybe the remote database belongs to another i

RE: Bug in DBD-ODBC 0.45_18

2002-10-18 Thread Jeff Urlwin
Roger, To offer you a quick summary of my position on this: 1) I can/could offer a workaround, but it breaks other, existing tests, which lead me to believe it would/could break other's code, since the tests specifically fix problems people have had -- maybe even one of yours :)

RE: Connections happening too fast?

2002-10-18 Thread Levine, Peter W
Hi, No response. Perhaps because I neglected to add the particulars: Using DBD:ODBC 0.43 with OpenLink ODBC manager and driver for SQL Server 2000. Pete > -Original Message- > From: Levine, Peter W > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 1:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

Re: Possible bug in DBI::Shell

2002-10-18 Thread Tim Bunce
Thanks. On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:14:02PM +, Robert Thompson wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using the great module DBI:Shell via dbish, but I may have come >across a bug. At the least, it did not behave as I expected. > > The problem is that when you type the command prefix an

Problems retrieving CLOB's from Oracle in UTF8

2002-10-18 Thread Joern Reder
Hi, sorry, the mail got long, but it took me some time to reproduce the problematic behaviour and I think we need this detail level to understand what's going wrong here... We're using Perl 5.8.0, DBI 1.30 and DBD::Oracle 1.12, both client and server on Linux. We just extend our application f

Possible bug in DBI::Shell

2002-10-18 Thread Robert Thompson
Hello, I have been using the great module DBI:Shell via dbish, but I may have come across a bug. At the least, it did not behave as I expected. The problem is that when you type the command prefix and it's not part of a command, DBI::Shell treats whatever you type after the pref

Re: DBD-ADO, getting started with

2002-10-18 Thread Thomas A. Lowery
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:57:28PM +0200, Roger Perttu wrote: > Thomas A. Lowery wrote: > > However nothing(!) seem to work for me with DBD-ADO (Using MS SQL 7.0 > MDAC 2.7 DBI 1.30 Activeperl 631): > > my $dbh = newDbh(); Of course my set-up is different, I just tested a remote connect to my l

Re: Bug in DBD-ODBC 0.45_18

2002-10-18 Thread Roger Perttu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I've downloaded the latest DBI and DBD::ODBC for Windows (from ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI) and installed that. I now see the problem you are seeing. Great, because I have very limited knowledge of ODBC so it's hard for me to explain what's going on. If

Connections happening too fast?

2002-10-18 Thread Levine, Peter W
Hi, On our development system (SunOS 5.7) my program would 'hang' on occasion immediately after a call to dbh->connect. This would be after a longish sequence of connects & disconnects to initialize some data files. By 'hang' I mean it never returned. A debug statement immediately after dbh->conne

Re: Problem with remotely connecting to db2 database using perl CGI

2002-10-18 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:18:46 -0700 Limei Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, there, > I am using DB2 UDB workgroup 7.2 on linux redhat 7.3, DBD-DB2 0.73 DBI > 1.30 Perl 5. > > I have no problem to connect to database by runnig the perl program > containing the following code in a command lin

RE: PERL DBI & DBD for Oracle 9i on Compaq Dec Alpha Tru64 UNIX OS

2002-10-18 Thread Crown David T. (DNREC)
I have had success with DBI 1.30 and DBD-Oracle 1.12 with 9i on Linux. There is an issue if you are (or planning) to use the 64bit version of Oracle .. event he the article is for sun, it should still apply to Tru64 http://xmlproj.com/fom-serve/cache/122.html David Crown, MCSE, MCP+I, CCNA Informa

problem with running export utility for db2 from perl.

2002-10-18 Thread Naveen Prabhakar
Hi, I am unable to execute a db2 export command this way. @conn_command = ("db2 connect to gtbookdb"); $output = `@conn_command 2>&1`; @exp_command = ( "db2 export to $textfile of del select \* from","$table_name"); $output = `@exp_command 2>&1`; error says the connection not available.

Problem with remotely connecting to db2 database using perl CGI

2002-10-18 Thread Limei Zhang
Hi, there, I am using DB2 UDB workgroup 7.2 on linux redhat 7.3, DBD-DB2 0.73 DBI 1.30 Perl 5. I have no problem to connect to database by runnig the perl program containing the following code in a command line: .. my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:DB2:$mydatabase", "$user", "$password"); . H

PERL DBI & DBD for Oracle 9i on Compaq Dec Alpha Tru64 UNIX OS

2002-10-18 Thread Rose, Bill
I am about to attempt a DBI/DBD for PERL Oracle 9i interfacing, on a Compaq Dec Alpha Tru64 UNIX machine. I am unsure whether to use DBI-1.25 or DBI-1.30, before installing DBD-Oracle-1.12. Also - will the DBD-Oracle-1.12 work with 9i? Could you advise? Thank you.

Re: Problem with remotely connecting to db2 database using perl CGI

2002-10-18 Thread Swen Schillig
Michael Did you setup your DB2INSTANCE variable properly with SetEnv DB2INSTANCE db2inst1 in the httpd.conf file ? Maybe the remote database belongs to another instance !? Swen

RE: HP-UX - Perl DBI - mainframe issue

2002-10-18 Thread Jesse, Rich
To see if the problem's in the Oracle side or the DBI side, does the SQL statement run directly from SQL*Plus on the client? Have you tried using the WE8ISO8859P1 NLS_LANG setting? Don't use the EBCDIC one on HP -- it won't work. A few other questions/points. Why are you using TO_CHAR? Or, ins

Re: Here Document Problems

2002-10-18 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:46:09 -0700 Elio Grieco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just spent the last 6 hours trying to figure out why I was not > receiving any rows back from DBI for SQL queries that returned over a > hundred rows through the phpMyAdmin interface. > > I finally noticed that in all

HP-UX compile issue

2002-10-18 Thread Powell, Bruce
This issue came up at a client site and we are at a loss to figure out why. During the make of DBD_ORacle-1.12 we consistently receive this error: /opt/perl5/bin/perl -I/opt/perl5/lib/5.6.1/PA-RISC1.1 -I/opt/perl5/lib/5.6.1 /opt/perl5/lib/5.6.1/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /opt/perl5/lib/5.6.

RE: insert LONG / BLOB in MS ACCESS == Brackets around names?

2002-10-18 Thread Frederik A.A. de Jonge
From: "Jeff Urlwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frederik A.A. de Jonge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jeff Urlwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Jeff I am not a fluent user of these systems, my oversight; I have posted my 2nd email to the list now. Thanks for your sec

RE: insert LONG / BLOB in MS ACCESS == Brackets around n

2002-10-18 Thread Frederik A.A. de Jonge
in response to Jeff his first reply sorry about not sending this immediately to th list --- Forwarded message follows --- From: Frederik A.A. de Jonge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeff Urlwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:RE: insert LONG /

Re: cc and gcc confusion

2002-10-18 Thread ariel mastracchio
Hello, Yes, but don't do!!! that make unstable!! You have to install the gcc 2.95 (download the bin from sunfreeware, other packets are needed too...) recompile the perl and then make all the modules again... or install the cc but i think it is too cost... i have the same problem with Solari

Here Document Problems

2002-10-18 Thread Elio Grieco
I just spent the last 6 hours trying to figure out why I was not receiving any rows back from DBI for SQL queries that returned over a hundred rows through the phpMyAdmin interface. I finally noticed that in all the places where no rows were returned I had used a here document to store the SQL

RE: insert LONG / BLOB in MS ACCESS == Brackets around names?

2002-10-18 Thread Jeff Urlwin
> Thanks for the reply Please always keep the dbi-users mailing list on the mails. Others can learn from what you've done... > After having sent my email (with some trepidation as I felt > that I was asking something that seems to be not a new problem) > I actually did find another of your answ

Re: Here Document Problems

2002-10-18 Thread Tkil
> "Elio" == Elio Grieco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Elio> I finally noticed that in all the places where no rows were returned I Elio> had used a here document to store the SQL in a variable before passing Elio> it to DBI. Does anyone know why using a here document would result in Elio> the SQ

Re: problem with running export utility for db2 from perl.

2002-10-18 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Naveen Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am unable to execute a db2 export command this way. > > @conn_command = ("db2 connect to gtbookdb"); > $output = `@conn_command 2>&1`; > > @exp_command = ( "db2 export to $textfile of del > select \* fr