RE: Connecting to more than one oracle database

2006-11-29 Thread Barksdale, Ray
You could try specifying the host and sid in the connect string. That way you only need ORACLE_HOME defined, nothing else. Something like this: my $dsn = 'dbi:Oracle:host=grill-name;sid=pork-roast;port=1525'; From: Malka Cymbalista [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: Connecting to more than one oracle database

2006-11-29 Thread Jeffrey Seger
If you have a "normal" installation...in particular, your tnsnames.ora and any whatever other .ora files reside in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/. Then only $ORACLE_HOME need be supplied, then you can create a connection for every database in your tnsnames.ora file if you like. If tnsnames.ora resid

Re: Connecting to more than one Oracle database

2006-12-11 Thread Malka Cymbalista
Hello to all of you, Last week I sent an email asking how to connect to more than one remote Oracle database. My problem was that in my startup.pl file, I am setting the following environment variables: ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, TWO_TASK and TNS_ADMIN. If I am trying to connect to 2 different data

Re: Connecting to more than one Oracle database

2006-12-11 Thread Perrin Harkins
Malka Cymbalista wrote: I have a script that works from the command line but does not work when I run it from the web. Good, you've narrowed it down then. These are the most common sources of problems that happen only when run from a web server: - Differences in %ENV - Running as a differen

Re: Connecting to more than one Oracle database

2006-12-12 Thread Malka Cymbalista
Thanks for all those who replied. I solved the problem - there was a problem with the syntax of the connect command. thanks again. Malka Cymbalista Webmaster, Weizmann Institute of Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-934-3036 >>> On 12/11/2006 at 9:01 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Perrin Harki

RE: Connecting to more than one Oracle database

2006-12-14 Thread Garrett, Philip (MAN-Corporate)
Malka Cymbalista wrote: [snip] > I connect in the following manner: > > DBI->connect("DBI:Oracle:asdb","user1","password1"); > and > DBI->connect("DBI:Oracle:asdb2","user2","password2"); > > I have a script that works from the command line but does not work > when I run it from the web. When I ru