Re: DBD::Oracle version to use?
[email protected] (John Scoles)
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On 10/13/2010 4:12 AM, Martin J. Evans wrote: > On 13/10/10 02:25, Carlson, John W. wrote: >> What is the recommended DBD::Oracle version and which instant client >> should I compile against for Oracle 11g databases, RedHat el5xen >> Linux x86_64 (64bit) architecture? There appears to be several >> recent oddly named versions on CPAN. 1.26 is out there, but it >> doesn't appear to be the latest release. Thanks for your help! >> >> John > The DBD-Oracle-1.25-withoutworldwriteables is because 1.25 was uploaded without world writeable dir (probably because it was packaged on Windows) and CPAN spots this and changes the name (amongst other things). > > The DBD-Oracle-1.26 was I believe uploaded by Tim Bunce to fix the above problem. > > I'm not sure what the DBD-Oracle-1.25_brokentar is unless it was uploaded to demonstrate a problem with CPAN. > > Use 1.26. > I use Oracle Client 11.2 without any problems. > > Don't forget to download the "sdk" as well as the "basic" and it does not hurt to get "sqlplus" at the same time as it can be useful. > > Martin Martin is spot on 1.26 would be the one to use and all of the instant client downloads. Cheers John Scoles