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

 Bruce Johnson wrote:
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> On Apr 20, 2010, at 3:49 AM, John Scoles wrote:
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>> Without DBI you are very limited in what you can do.
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>> You might want to take a time machine back and give Oraperl a go
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>> http://search.cpan.org/~pythian/DBD-Oracle-1.24a/Oraperl.pm
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>> Old and unmaintained but at least I think you can run it without dbi
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> Not even this will work without DBI, from the CPAN Oraperl page:

Shows you how much it is now used which is not.

I think I will deprecate it and move it off of DBD::Oracle code altogether.

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> "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."
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> 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.
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