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

On Apr 20, 2010, at 3:49 AM, John Scoles wrote:

> Without DBI you are very limited in what you can do.
>
> You might want to take a time machine back and give Oraperl a go
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~pythian/DBD-Oracle-1.24a/Oraperl.pm
>
>
> Old and unmaintained but at least I think you can run it without dbi

Not even this will work without DBI, from the CPAN Oraperl page:

"Oraperl is an extension to Perl which allows access to Oracle  
databases.
The original oraperl was a Perl 4 binary with Oracle OCI compiled into  
it. The Perl 5 Oraperl module described here is distributed with  
DBD::Oracle (a database driver what operates within DBI) and adds an  
extra layer over DBI method calls. The Oraperl module should only be  
used to allow existing Perl 4 oraperl scripts to run with minimal  
changes; any new development should use DBI directly."

If the PHB won't allow DBI to be installed, you're SOL. You can try  
doing what you need with sqlplus scripts and procedures.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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