: Re: Oracle9.2 and mod_perl - advice sought
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Perl for Oracle DBAs
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HTH,
Christopher Taranto
At 06:12 PM 3/25/03 +, you wrote:
Hello all,
Quick request for advice/direction...
I'm about
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Subject: RE: Oracle9.2 and mod_perl - advice sought
Chris, Dmitri, Chuck,
Thank you all..
Have got myself a safari bookshelf and cpan shell at the ready.. Wish me
luck... Databases here I come ;-)
- Jim
-Original
Jim,
ODBC is not the way to go for Oracle if you can. Early on I tried using ODBC and I
had crashes and hang-ups. Performance is substantially better also. The modules below
and the oci libraries in the Oracle install will get it for you. This version works
with the 9i Release 2 for me.
The regular DBI (http://search.cpan.org/author/TIMB/DBI-1.35/DBI.pm) with DBD::Oracle
(http://search.cpan.org/author/TIMB/DBD-Oracle-1.13/Oracle.pm) will work just fine.
To make your life easier, take a look at Class::DBI
(http://search.cpan.org/author/TMTM/Class-DBI-0.91/lib/Class/DBI.pm) as
