Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: DBI.pm - Memoryfault(coredump)

2020-11-26 Thread Jared Still
gt;> >> The information contained in this electronic mail transmission is >> intended only for the use of the individual or entity named in this >> transmission. If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission, >> you are hereby notified that any disclosu

Re: (Fwd) DBD:Oracle

2020-11-26 Thread Jared Still
ciate it or if > you can point me to someone. >Thanks, >Ajay > >Ajay Kumar > >Applications Developer > > Prince William County Public Schools > > - End forwarded message - > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Eva

Re: "Out of memory! Out of memory! Callback called exit at ..."

2010-08-12 Thread Jared Still
-starter. It is at times also an indication that the poster has not yet really investigated the problem too deeply. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com

Re: PERL DBI ORACLE DATABASE OUTPUT TO A FILE

2010-05-15 Thread Jared Still
ttp://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:25 PM, tech422 wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to query an Oracle database

Re: Help on using << on *nix and Windows

2010-04-21 Thread Jared Still
altogether for this task. If you want advice on how to use sqlplus in both linux and windows, there is a better forum for that: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com

Re: spammer on dbi-users

2010-03-25 Thread Jared Still
ferent depending on who you ask. If someone is a Moderator and allows or denies posts before they are sent out to the list, then he or she can be seen as being responsible for the content. Not so good if someone claims a post is libelous. Spammer *are* annoying. Just hit Jared Still Certi

Re: using DBI for mutual exclusion across multiple servers

2010-03-11 Thread Jared Still
t others. Is this being done on an Oracle database? If so a much better way IMO would be to use the DBMS_LOCK package that is part of the database. The package has the advantage of automatically releasing a lock when the session ends. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Ev

Re: DBD::Oracle - prepare() error on VARRAY types

2010-03-11 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Lyle Brooks wrote: > > In reading the DBD::Oracle docs, it seems like it is saying that > Object & Collections are supported, but perhaps I am mis-understanding > the docs. > > Did you try the example in the docs? Jared Still Certifiable Or

Re: using DBI for mutual exclusion across multiple servers

2010-03-10 Thread Jared Still
that already does this (couldn't find one), or if > there are problems that could cause this to blow up. > > Have you taken care to test in a environment that will push it as hard as production? Have you made sure that some clients disconnect at inopportune times? Just providing a few

Re: DBD::Oracle for 64 bit windows

2010-03-02 Thread Jared Still
I am using 32 bit Perl on 64 bit servers, as there are some modules that aren't available in 64 bit, such as Win32::Daemon. If you need to do so, just open a 32 bit command window to run the 32 bit installer from. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog:

Re: Perl DBI Oracle SYSDBA help/advise please:

2010-02-11 Thread Jared Still
gt;prepare("select 'Today is ' || sysdate from dual union all select user from dual"); $sth->execute(); while (my ($sysdate) = $sth->fetchrow_array()) { print $sysdate, "\n"; } $sth->finish(); 1.609 Today is 11-FEB-2010 16:31:48 SYS = Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com

Re: How to catch the returned error message.

2009-11-11 Thread Jared Still
In addition to the advice you have received, I might suggest that you read all of the user documentation for both DBI and DBD::Oracle. You'll be glad you did. It is a good idea to review it periodically as well. Which reminds me ... Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time

Re: Multiple Oracle clients in same code - no usernames needed

2009-10-30 Thread Jared Still
Bummer. Thanks for the explanation. I was going to recommend using a password server, but probably not a good idea for multiple personal account passwords. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com

Re: Multiple Oracle clients in same code - no usernames needed

2009-10-30 Thread Jared Still
10 ). > > I see lots of help offered on solving this problem. What I am curious about is why is it a problem? Why can you not use a username and password? Some may say the answers to that question are obvious, but that may not be the case. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Tim

Re: collecting some simple profiling statistics

2009-10-23 Thread Jared Still
3s making 8449 calls to DBI::st::fetchrow_arrayref, avg 1.69ms/call # spent 3.40s making 8449 calls to DBI::st::execute, avg 403µs/call* 514 ); 515 #};516 <http://search.cpan.org/~timb/Devel-NYTProf-2.10/lib/Devel/NYTProf.pm> Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl

Re: (Fwd) Question regarding DBI status

2009-08-10 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:23 -0400, Link McGaughey wrote: > ...aliasing each of the column names, but this becomes a maintenance > issue when you have alter the selected columns every time there is a > change to the table. Personally, I would work on stabilizing the design. Tables frequently be

Re: Master / Slave driver?

2009-07-06 Thread Jared Still
transactions (begin, select for update) go to the master. Database is > Postgresql. > The obligatory question: What are you really trying to accomplish? Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: Setting up ODBC connection on Linux for using DBD::ODBC

2009-06-29 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 15:56 +0530, Dhanashri Bhate wrote: > Hi All, > I have been working on Windows with Oracle DB and Active Perl and done some > DBI coding with DBD::ODBC. > Now I need to move things over to Linux machine ( Red Hat Linux 4 and Oracle > 10g.) > I know this is not really a DBI

Re: Need help for Oracle DBD::driver

2009-06-09 Thread Jared Still
Just when I thought it was as simple as reading the error message... Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Martin Gainty wrote: > > > $driver is the driver name, > possibly defaulted to $ENV{DBI_DRIVER},and may be undefi

Re: Permission problems with installing DBD::Oracle 1.22

2009-02-06 Thread Jared Still
/10.2.0 > Can't create define.sql: Permission denied at Makefile.PL line 1516. > print() on closed filehandle FH at Makefile.PL line 1517. > Looks like you are trying to install DBD::Oracle while logged on as oracle. You probably need to be root. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: Error in DBD::Oracle (1.22) Makefile.PL with "filetest"

2008-12-22 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 16:08 +0100, pmonsch...@groupe-casino.fr wrote: > } > > My environment is correct : > ORACLE_HOME is correctly set and point to and OCI oracle folder > (10gR2.4 64bit) This sentence is somewhat confusing. What exactly is the value of $ORACLE_HOME ?

Re: Pay no attention to that DBI callback behind the curtain

2008-05-02 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 11:53 +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > I found an interesting use for the (undocumented) DBI callback mechanism > recently. > You might find it interesting (in lieu of documentation, for now). > > http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/05/01/pay-no-attention-to-that-callback-behind-the-curt

Re: OCIEnvNlsCreate error with DBD::Oracle 1.21 and Oracle 10g client in Cygwin

2008-05-02 Thread Jared Still
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 09:08 -0700, Dunston Rocks wrote: > $ENV{TNS_ADMIN}= > 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_2\NETWORK\ADMIN\tnsnam > es.ora'; # Also tried replacing these with POSIX-Style paths > $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = "C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_2"; > $ENV{NLS_LANG}

Re: DBD::Oracle and Support for Oracle 8 and 9 clients

2008-04-23 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:43 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just want to get a general feeling of the community on weather the next > version of DBD::Oracle (1.22) should drop support for the > > Oracle 8 and > Oracle 9 clients Though personally I no longer have an 7.x databases to work with,

Re: perl DBI oracle and error ORA 06502

2008-03-23 Thread Jared Still
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small ORA-06512: at line 2 When all else fails, read the documentation. Jared -- 6502.sql -- demonstrate common causes of ORA-6502 -- Jared Still -- See note # 20063.1 on MetaLink drop table t6502; create table t6502

RE: make error-> ld: Unrecognized argument: -Wl,+b...

2008-03-01 Thread Jared Still
> I'm reluctant to build Perl, primarily because there are already 20 > other modules that I have already installed into this Perl. Secondly, > if I can't build a Perl C module, what luck am I going to have building > a whole language. I've made it a standard practice to always install my own co

Re: multiple versions of oracle and dbi/dbd

2008-02-06 Thread Jared Still
On Feb 6, 2008 8:30 AM, Richard Labutis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > one more question: > why is not possible to build a universal version? > > That will likely appear when Oracle provides a universal client. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: DBD::ORACLE INSTALLATION ERROR

2008-02-05 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:52 +0530, Mohammed, Shafi wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install DBD::oracle package in my machine. > Version? > > Please tell me how to resolve this issue. > I know nothing about hpux, do have extensive experience perusing documentation. A good start would be

Re: Does changing ORACLE_HOME affect DBI?

2008-01-18 Thread Jared Still
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 09:47 -0500, RICHARD FERNANDEZ wrote: > Does moving ORACLE_HOME mean that I need to recompile DBI, or was that > information only used for testing during the install? > DBI has no dependence whatsoever on Oracle. DBI is "DataBase Interface" DBD::Oracle on the other hand is

Re: All tests fail for any other than user 'oracle'

2008-01-17 Thread Jared Still
even better, make sure it's working. tnsping On Jan 16, 2008 11:11 AM, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also make sure the Oracle listener is listening on e.g > . > netstat -a | grep 1521 > > M-- > - Original Message - > From: "

Re: All tests fail for any other than user 'oracle'

2008-01-16 Thread Jared Still
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 16:29 -0600, Michael Muratet wrote: > I am trying now to get DBD::Oracle working. The DBI install came off > without a hitch. The DBD perl build and the make worked OK (logs are > at the end). The first attempt at testing failed. I recalled something > I had read about

Re: compatibility matrix

2008-01-12 Thread Jared Still
ork right, too bad. Connections between Oracle 7 and 9.2 are not supported. A 9.2 client cannot connect to a 7.3 database, though a 7.3 client can connect to a 9.2database. We have an app that does this, simply because there is no way around it, unsupported or not. See MetaLink note 207303.1 -- Ja

Re: Using q() to define a query

2008-01-12 Thread Jared Still
2008/1/12 Dr.Ruud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Carville, Stephen" schreef: > > > and c.certcrtdate >= to_date('%s','MM-DD-') > > Aaargh, you should always use 'YYYY-MM-DD'. > > Except when reality beckons. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: TWO_TASK environment variable

2007-09-11 Thread Jared Still
ease 9.2.0.8.0 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production Data Base -- DV2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] SQL> -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: [Oracle][ODBC]Numeric value out of range.

2007-07-23 Thread Jared Still
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 12:34 -0700, Paul Simon wrote: > Again, setting the sql type to SQL_VARCHAR via bind_param solves the error... > > Looking back, the problem started when I upgraded the oracle client > (including oracle odbc > driver) from 9i to 10g. There's something not right here - even

Re: [Oracle][ODBC]Numeric value out of range.

2007-07-18 Thread Jared Still
atabase version. Try running your script without bind_param against a different version of the database. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: Duplicate table structure

2007-06-08 Thread Jared Still
les, in the future, I'll definitely check it out. dbms_metadata has one nasty flaw - the output must be manually reformatted to be usable. Try using DDL::Oracle, as it does work. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: Proposal for new $h->{ReadOnly} attribute

2007-05-31 Thread Jared Still
hether or not it is read only. I believe this correspond to the ANSI standard SET TRANSACTION REPEATABLE READ with the added functionality of not allowing DML when set to READ ONLY. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: help with my perl script

2007-04-11 Thread Jared Still
${SHELL:-/bin/sh} << `(dd if=/dev/urandom count=200 bs=1 2>/dev/null|LC_ALL=C tr -d -c '[:alnum:]')` ls -l HTH -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: Cannot Install DBD ORacle in Win Xp

2007-03-26 Thread Jared Still
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 00:56 +0530, Samant Kumar wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install DBD Oracle from a very long time now. I cannot use > PPM as the systems in my company are behind a proxy. I am a novice in both Have you set the HTTP_PROXY environment variable? Have you read the README?

Re: How should I connect via DBD::Oracle to efficiently obtain 2000+ simultaneous connections?

2006-12-20 Thread Jared Still
. To get an accurate accounting requires parsing the data in /proc/PID/maps and determining how much memory is in use. This is what pmap and ps should do. They both double or triple count a few numbers. The point is, you don't really know how much memory you are using if this is a linux box.

Re: How should I connect via DBD::Oracle to efficiently obtain 2000+ simultaneous connections?

2006-12-20 Thread Jared Still
pooling. I have not used it, but it is designed for your scenario. You do need a test environment that mimics production to really test an implementation of this. http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/network.102/b14212/intro.htm#sthref67 -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Par

Re: Unix: Oracle User Identified Externally

2006-12-20 Thread Jared Still
): perl -MDBI -e 'print "$DBI::VERSION\n";' or even: $> perl -MDBI=99 DBI version 99 required--this is only version 1.52 at /u01/app/perl/lib/5.8.8/Exporter/Heavy.pm line 121. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: Oracle Troubleshooter HOWTO on my homepage

2006-09-29 Thread Jared Still
quests, I've uploaded an Oracle Troubleshooter HOWTO to my homepage, that should help you if you get "Can't load Oracle.DLL" and similar errors with DBD::Oracle. URL http://www.alexander-foken.de/downloads.html Alexander -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: Rows returned are out of sync with the request.

2006-08-25 Thread Jared Still
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 16:11 -0700, Stephen Carville wrote: > I'm not quite sure how to describe this problem. > > When I make a call to an Oracle 10g database using DBI and SQLRelay (for > connection pooling) I seem to get results from the previous SELECT. > Is the Oracle version 10.2? Are mul

RE: Oralce10g database compatible Perl version, DBD and DBI -on URGENT Basis

2006-08-25 Thread Jared Still
xplicitly. > > > Best Regards, > Sasikala, > GPSy Development Team, > HP-GDIC,Chennai,India, > Ph:+91-44-3985 3015. > > > > ________ > > From: Jared Still [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:21 PM

Re: DBD::Oracle 1.18 installation problem

2006-08-24 Thread Jared Still
w if that is the exact problem here, but that is where I would start. Current versions are 5.8.x. Many folks consider it best practice to install a separate version of Perl for use with database work. Modifying (such as adding modules) the version used by the OS is not generally a good idea.

Re: Oralce10g database compatible Perl version, DBD and DBI

2006-08-24 Thread Jared Still
5 3015. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: DBD-DBM too slow

2006-08-24 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 11:23 -0700, ManKyu Han wrote: > Is there some optimization that I should do? > Yes > # > # This will populate Table > # mkUtil is nothing but collection of simple functions like random number > generator > # and printing time and mes

Re: DBD::Oracle ppd

2006-05-02 Thread Jared Still
e silent about things that matter. > Martin Luther King > > Our government can't be bought. The oil companies will never give it up > at > any price. > My opinion > -- > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

Re: Slow Performance When Using DBI, otherwise Not

2006-02-24 Thread Jared Still
Why are you setting TWO_TASK in the Perl script? Try running your script without it. Jared On 2/23/06, Rhugga Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is the perl code to do the same: > > $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = $_oracle_home; > $ENV{TWO_TASK} = $_oracle_two_task; > $ENV{TNS_ADMIN}

Re: DBI Build error in36 line

2006-02-09 Thread Jared Still
enter into any contract on > behalf of Britannia Building Society by email. > Britannia Building Society is authorised and regulated by the Financial > Services Authority. Britannia Building Society is entered in the FSA > register, register number 104879. Britannia Building Society, Britannia > House, Leek, Staffordshire Moorlands, ST13 5RG. > > > > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

RE: :Oracle - with ora10g oci.dll

2006-01-05 Thread Jared Still
Not using tnsnames.ora? Using Oracle Names? You are likely running into a bug with Oracle 9.2. There are at least 2 documented bugs for this, probably more undocumented ones. The workaround? Use a tnsnames.ora file. Seriously. There is so far, no fix for it. I've had to do this on several

Re: DBD::Oracle build failure...

2006-01-05 Thread Jared Still
Why not just download from ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.3 ? On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:29 -0600, amonotod wrote: > Hey all... > I've previously built DBD::Oracle 1.15 and 1.16 against Oracle 9i and Perl > 5.8.0 and 5.8.3; those builds went flawlessly, I seem to recall. But, my >

re: Oracle 10g and DBD::Oracle

2005-12-13 Thread Jared Still
It appears that you are seeing the parse done by DBD::Oracle to describe the table. Look at the DBI docs for ora_check_sql. Turn it off and the extra parse should go away. Jared On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 11:00 -0500, Peter Santos wrote: > Dear users, > I'm hoping to get some insight into why oracle

Re: DBD::Oracle 2nd insert of row into table with 2 CLOBs hangs

2005-12-09 Thread Jared Still
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 15:43 -0800, Joe Slagel wrote: > Hi Tim & Folks, > > We've found a interesting problem when inserting multiple rows into a > table containing two CLOB columns. The second execute() hangs and > Oracle never responds. The execute() hangs only when the character > sizes of the

Re: DBD::Oracle and CLOBs

2005-11-01 Thread Jared Still
lumn on the database. = On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 20:41 +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > Last time this came up (which was recently) Jared Still [CC'd] > reported that he'd found several non-perl related references to this > error on Metalink. They were related to improp

RE: Newline inserted?

2005-10-26 Thread Jared Still
Though I very much like Perl, sqlplus sometimes is the correct tool to use, even from cron. If you are on at least version 9 of Oracle, it becomes an even better tool, as external tables, bulk binds and the 'FORALL' statement can load data extremely quickly and efficiently. see: http://www.free

Re: Perl Oracle issue

2005-10-10 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 06:09, Gupta, Razat wrote: > I was running DBI on my machine and it was fine. > > I was accessing remote Oracle servers using DBD::ORACLE. Which indicates that Oracle was already installed on your machine. Otherwise, DBD::Oracle would complain. > But when I had installed Or

Re: Perl DBI and threads.pm

2005-10-07 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:42, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > My understanding is that a Perl with multi-threading where you do not use > the multithreading should be as stable as a Perl without the multithreading. > However, there's a chance that some modules may not be so happy. OTOH, DBI > shouldn't b

Re: Execute failed: ORA-01026: multiple buffers of size > 4000 in the bind list (DBD: oexec error)

2005-10-07 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 10:46, Moon, John wrote: > The following code produces this error - ORA-01026 - after 2,000 inserts... > Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. > You should troubleshoot this with the help of Oracle Support if you have it. There are a number of possible cause

Re: Inserting UTF-8 string over 2000 chars to Oracle 10g - error ORA-01461

2005-08-13 Thread Jared Still
This seems to be bug 1400539. See MetaLink document 241358.1 for an explanation and workarounds. HTH Jared On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 01:00, Teemu Kivioja wrote: > Hi, > > Even though character encoding issues have been discussed also here, I still > cannot figure out what is going on in my system

Re: Perl integration with oracle9i

2005-07-26 Thread Jared Still
The current versions of both will work nicely. Both are found on CPAN. All details that are normally necessary are found in the fine documentation that is bundled with the source code. Further details may be found at http://google.com. Jared On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 23:42, Ata Raja wrote: > Hi, >

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-10 Thread Jared Still
> driver://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port/instance > I haven't been following this too closely, so my apologies if already mentioned. This connect string is very much like the new Easy Connect Naming method in Oracle 10g. eg. sqlplus scott/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port/service Note that it is not 'ins

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-07 Thread Jared Still
I use a (Perl) password server for this. Passwords are stored encrypted in a configuration file. Clients authenticate with the server, and receive a requested password (encrypted) across the network, if the client is entitled. The user authentication is rudimentary, but it works. SSH certificate

Re: it works, but...

2005-07-05 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 17:08, Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido wrote: > OK, let's see what I can do. Just taking time from the project to > "think" of rewriting reports is already a luxury, and there's a > competing alternative called SQR. I have to test it too and see how > much time it takes. > Fu

Re: dbi:oracle win2k ORA-1222 problems

2005-06-16 Thread Jared Still
ORA-1222 is "MAXINSTANCES of %s requires MAXLOGFILES be at least %s, not %s" which is incurred during database or controlfile creation. Maybe a different error message you are seeing? IAC, an Oracle 9.2 client cannot connect to an Oracle 7 database, so maybe an upgrade of the database is in ord

Re: storing hierarchical values in db; methods

2005-06-16 Thread Jared Still
Google this: oracle sql "Underneath the Mango Tree" The URL to an excellent article by Stephane Faroult will be the only hit. If you click the URL, you will need to be a member of IUOG. If you click 'View HTML' the article itself will appear, though not well formatted. Such is the magic of goo

RE: Finding out the type expected for a placeholder

2005-06-16 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 09:44, Moon, John wrote: > ... jwm wrote > > "IF" this is the way you choose to build your update/insert statements > please be aware that "date" formats vary by session... So you would need to > either do a to_date function and different mask for each date you handle or > s

RE: LongReadLen issue

2005-05-28 Thread Jared Still
gt; Ron Reidy > Lead DBA > Array BioPharma, Inc. > > > -Original Message- > From: Tantalo, Christopher G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:57 AM > To: Jared Still > Cc: DBI List >

RE: LongReadLen issue

2005-05-26 Thread Jared Still
A little RTFM is in order. Try max(dbms_lob.getlength(mc.mc_long_description)) Jared On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 07:27, Tantalo, Christopher G wrote: > I am not totally sure that is the issue. Using sqlplus and TOAD to just > do the simple select > > SELECT MAX(mc.MC_LONG_DESCRIPTION) > > FROM dmg

RE: How to store query results in an array?

2005-05-26 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 07:05, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > Regardless of the method you use to construct the query, you should not > quote the values by hand. This approach will fail if a value contains a > single quote, and may make you vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Yes, thank you. A bad ha

Re: How to store query results in an array?

2005-05-25 Thread Jared Still
Here's a fun and slightly obfuscated method to do that: my $usql=q{select username from dba_users}; my $aryRef = $dbh->selectall_arrayref($usql); my @users = map { $aryRef->[$_][0] } 0..$#{$aryRef}; my $newSql = q{select from users where username in ('} . join(q{','},@users) . q{')}; print "$

Re: Perl Performance Help.

2005-05-20 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 07:48, Job Miller wrote: > > a 20k row fetch via an index would be a bad idea. Without knowing more about the data and schema, you can't really claim that. If the 20k rows are from a billion row table that is not partitioned, an index may be a good idea. It depends on h

Re: Perl Performance Help.

2005-05-20 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 07:21, Ian Harisay wrote: > If this takes 2 minutes then your problem is with your database, not > Perl. Which means you'll need to look at query optimization. Not code > optimization. Your query optimization may also include tuning your database. Things like network laten

RE: More on closing Oracle ref cursors

2005-05-16 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:57, Michael Styer wrote: > Thanks for that. That's definitely the limit I'm running up against. Now > if I could only figure out how to close my cursors... Why don't you just close them the same way you opened them: via PL/SQL.

Re: PLease remove me from the list

2005-03-17 Thread Jared Still
Click your heels twice and utter the incantion "There's no place like home. There's no place like home." On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:02, James B Schmidt wrote: > > > Please remove me from the list. > > Thank you > __ > > James B. Schmidt,

Re: Oracle nested selects

2005-03-17 Thread Jared Still
Maybe an example is in order. DBD::Oracle does support inline views, nested queries, and just about any other form of SQL thatyou can pass to it. My best guess is that you need to use sql_tags ( see the docs ) to explictly state the type of the column generating the error. On Wed, 2005-03-16 at

Re: problems building DBD::Oracle 1.16 - help - please

2005-02-11 Thread Jared Still
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 07:06, Adam Stoller wrote: > Once we fixed that, we found that with ORACLE_HOME being protected (750 > directory access) using 'sudo make' wasn't sufficient - and we had to > change the access rights on ORACLE_HOME to 755 > A better way to do this might be to build a vers

Re: Cannot Insert into Oracle

2005-02-11 Thread Jared Still
Hi Nelson, Is there an error message or messages the result from this script? For all we know, your failure to commit is just a personal problem. :) Also, you are committing every row. Please stop doing that, your database will love you for it. Just issue one commit at the end of the loop, or

Re: Aliases in DBI/DBD

2004-12-25 Thread Jared Still
Or even my $sql=q{select to_char(mf.ROW_MOD_DATE,'MM/DD/') "Modify Date" from table1 mf} Jared On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 19:10, David N Murray wrote: > If you are trying something like > > my $sql = "select to_char(mf.ROW_MOD_DATE,'MM/DD/') "Modify Date" from > tbl mf"; > > then its perl th

Re: DBD::Oracle problem with include files

2004-11-24 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 06:43, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:39:53PM +0200, Doru Petrescu wrote: > > > > ... Oracle 10.1.0.3 ... > > in the end it turns out there are TWO oci.h files one in rdbms/demo and > > one in rdbs/public I have only one, in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/public. Jared

Re: Error using DBD-Oracle-1.16 in CGI script

2004-11-06 Thread Jared Still
According to your trace file, you need to reset your ORACLE_HOME to point to the 9.2 installation. Jared On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 04:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Sir, > > after succesfully using Oracle-DBD on a machine running RedHat 8.0 with > Apache 1.3, Perl 5.6 and Oracle 8.1.7 I though

Re: (Fwd) Perl Oracle incompatibility

2004-11-02 Thread Jared Still
> It was working fine with oracle 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 I guess some configuration > settings have to be done for my perl to execute the stored procedure written > in oracle. > So, does the stored procedure work correctly when called stand-alone from sqlplus? My guess is that it doesn't. Here's what

RE: Slow connection to Oracle 9i

2004-10-23 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 10:16, BAXTER, LINCOLN A wrote: > Most people with experience with Oracle know that opening oracle connections > is SLOW! > Really? I've never noticed. Unless I'm connecting to a database over a slow WAN. Here's a connection time to a database on a laptop through an 811

Re: binding multiple values and retain blanks

2004-10-23 Thread Jared Still
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 14:47, Ravi Kongara wrote: > I got to try this in terms of performance. I'm running this program for > more than 100 different tables parallelly. So i have to create so many > temp tables at a time and populate them with the given data and then > run the query by joining with

Re: Second Request: Link Fails with Personal Oracle8 and DBD-Oracle-1.15

2004-09-27 Thread Jared Still
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 12:01, David wrote: > Hi, > > I have oracle 8 personal edition with OCI80 installed on WinNT. > > I have DBD-Oracle-1.15 and running in cygwin downloaded in the last > 90 days. I also tried versions 7 through 14. > > perl Makefile.PL can't find the Oracle version number. No

RE: Faster Inserting Code

2004-09-24 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:19, Lamb Joseph wrote: > I bagged SQLite and used an Oracle DB. > You may want to check out 'execute_for_fetch', though I confess I have not compared exe times, it may be worth investigating. Jared

RE: Faster Inserting Code

2004-09-24 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:35, Reidy, Ron wrote: > Well, since you're using Oracle, modify your do() and prepare() statements as > follows: > > $dbh->do("sql statement", {ora_check_sql => 0}) ... > > $dbh->prepare("sql statement", {ora_check_sql => 0}) ... > > And you will make your DBA happy. >

Re: Perl/DBI/ORACLE Troubles. Help, please!

2004-09-24 Thread Jared Still
. It would be nice to solve this situation so if it comes > up again, I can handle it on the fly. > > Thanks for your consideration, Jared. > > > Christopher R. Marbach > Data Quality Coordinator > Pharmacy Analytical Services > Kaiser Permanente > 8-345-2485 > (5

Re: DBD::Oracle and ORA-600 [16365] errors

2004-09-24 Thread Jared Still
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 01:47, Tristan Greaves wrote: > Hi there Tim, > > We are using DBD::Oracle as part of our web site here, and are > experiencing some Oracle crash issues. We are trying to pin down the > cause and I was wondering if you have had any similar issues raised > to you. > > Here

Re: Perl/DBI/ORACLE Troubles. Help, please!

2004-09-06 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I'm new to the list and am experiencing an issue that I hope some > of you all have dealt with previous and can lend me some advise on.. or > supply a possible fix. > > Perl 5.6.1 with DBI module 1.32 operating on AIX 4.3. I'm attem

RE: How to use sequences in DBI/DBD::Oracle with bind

2004-09-06 Thread Jared Still
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 07:36, Reidy, Ron wrote: > Use a before insert trigger to populate the column. > Triggers have the cachet of being a neat way to automatically populate key columns, and I have used them many times myself. They are also much slower than the posters original code. Jared

Re: How to use sequences in DBI/DBD::Oracle with bind

2004-09-06 Thread Jared Still
> my $start_num = $dbh->selectrow_array( "select my_id_seq.nextval from > dual"); > my @seq = ( $start_num..100,000 ); # some end number > > $sth->prepare ( "insert into foo (my_id, data) values (?,?)" ); > $sth->bind_param( 1, shift(@seq) ); > $sth->bind_param( 2, "bar"); > $sth->execute(); >

Re: ANNOUNCE: DBD::Oracle 1.16 release candidate 7 - request for testing

2004-08-28 Thread Jared Still
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 16:55, Tim Bunce wrote: > An even more mature, and hopefully even more final, release candidate > of DBD::Oracle 1.16 is available for testing at: > > http://homepage.eircom.net/~timbunce/DBD-Oracle-1.16-rc7-20040826.tar.gz > Nice one Tim! It now finds the 10g libs. J

Re: bind_param place holder

2004-08-19 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 08:14, Xinyu Wen wrote: > I have a query like this: > > select a from some_table where b in (?); > > I neet to bind 1000 items for b which likes: > > select a from some_table where b in ('abc','bcd','acd',x1000); > > how can I bind this many parameters without actually

Re: Re:fetch entire table

2004-08-16 Thread Jared Still
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 11:05, charlie cs wrote: > The following perl script will dump entire table to a > flat file, much faster than sqlplus spool. I don't believe Oracle was mentioned. > Please test it in your case and let me know your > result. It will be even faster with $dbh->{RowCacheSize}

Re: fetch entire table

2004-08-16 Thread Jared Still
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 11:53, Harald Fuchs wrote: > Why do you want to use Perl for that? Every DB has some "export" > feature that's optimized for exactly what you ask for. You are obviously not an oracle user. Jared

Re: fetch entire table

2004-08-14 Thread Jared Still
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 09:34, Xinyu Wen wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if there is a better way to fetch an entire table > to a file (the file has to be tab delimited) instead of using > fetchrow_array function? Fetchrow_array is working fine but slow to > work with a big table. > > Thanks

Re: DBD::Oracle 1.15 install problems

2004-08-14 Thread Jared Still
See comments inline: On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 12:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hiya, > > I just finished installing oracle 9.2i on Redhat 9 (Complete client software group) > and now I am trying to install DBD:Oracle. It isnt going to well. > > My Environment variables are all set.. Oracle_home,

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