You usually need to have quite a few environment variables set before you can 
access Oracle, as the error message (OCIEnvInit) roughly indicates.  Try 
reading the docs that came with the DBI (and DBD::Oracle particularly), I 
believe there are many examples in there.

You are at least short of 

	ORACLE_SID or TWO_TASK

Ciao
Richard Foley
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On Tuesday 04 January 2005 09:47, Sandeep Warikoo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying the access oracle through perl, but am getting the error
> "ERROR OCIEnvInit".
>
> My perl script is:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> use DBI;
>
> $ENV{ORACLE_HOME}='/data/oracle/product/9.2.0';
>
> my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:d7_bilab03","hpbi_owner","hpbi") or
> die "couldn't connect to database:    $DBI::errstr\n";
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Does anyone know how to solve this?
>
> Regards,
> Sandeep W.