DBD::Oracle for ActiveState Perl.

On Windows, at this time, it seems that ActiveState has released a
binary version of DBD::Oracle. I do not know how long it's been out
there, but I did install it tonight. I have briefly tested this using
Active Perl 5.8.7 (build 813).

I successfully ran:
ppm install DBD-Oracle

When the Oracle instant client license acknowledgement came up, I
selected NO, as I have an Oracle client loaded. If you select Yes, it
starts to download the Oracle instant client. =20

I would suggest that people start trying the Active Perl ppm version
rather than mine at www.esoftmatic.com/DBI. If it works, I'm going to
get out of the pre-building business. =20

Personally, I would also like to hear success/failure of those using the
instant client which is downloaded.

Regards,

Jeff

Re: DBD::Oracle for ActiveState Perl.

Is there a way that you can talk to them to make sure that is a "going
forward" thing for them? They used to do one, then they didn't and now they
do. I like ActiveState, but I don't want to be up the proverbial creek if
they change their minds again. : )

just-being-paranoid,

Robert

Re: DBD::Oracle for ActiveState Perl.

When I use your version, everything is kosher. When I use the AS version, I
get:

DBI connect('ellprd','ellipse',...) failed: ERROR
OCINlsEnvironmentVariableGet(OCI_NLS_CHARSET_ID) Check ORACLE_HOME and NLS
settings etc. at wkoarpt.pl line 34

Robert

RE: DBD::Oracle for ActiveState Perl.

I have no control over that ;)

Jeff=20

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> again. : )
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Re: DBD::Oracle for ActiveState Perl.

"Robert" wrote in message
news:20051102130306.14980.qmail@lists.develooper.com...
> When I use your version, everything is kosher. When I use the AS version,
I
> get:
>
> DBI connect('ellprd','ellipse',...) failed: ERROR
> OCINlsEnvironmentVariableGet(OCI_NLS_CHARSET_ID) Check ORACLE_HOME and NLS
> settings etc. at wkoarpt.pl line 34
>

This was my bad. When I first tried to install the AS one I said "y" to the
license agreement not realizing it would start a download of express. I
halted the download which broke the install. I have reinstalled everything
and the AS one works now.

Robert