Re: Help with selectdb in dbi module

[email protected] (Alexander Foken)
Newsgroups perl.dbi.users
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 13.05.2010 16:58, mani kandan wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
>  I wrote a small script that connect to SQL Server engine.I don't want to
> give the name of the databse in the connection string.
Why not?

> I want to select a db
> on the fly only if it present.
When WHAT is present?

> I tried $dbh->selectdb($databasename) but this
> failed throwing error can't able to locate object method "selectdb" in
> package dbi::db.

There is no such method in DBI, and as far as I know, there was never one.

The only way to specify a database is to use the connect() method of the 
DBI class.

> Please help me on this.I work with microsoft sql server
> 2005.
>   
What DBD do you use? DBD::ODBC?

Alexander


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