Not sure if I should post this in comp.lang.perl.misc, but thought I'd
try here first.

I may need to connect to an Oracle server from a Perl client on a remote
machine without using DBD::Oracle on the client (because the
"decision-makers" won't install Oracle client libraries on the client
machine). Is anyone here familiar enough with DBD::pNET and pNETagent
to know if they will work well (or at all) with DBD::Oracle on the
server? I did a bit of google searching for
DBD::pNET DBD::Oracle
and
pNETagent DBD::Oracle

but did not succeed in finding an answer to my question.


Thanks!


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Jim Cochrane wrote:
> Not sure if I should post this in comp.lang.perl.misc, but thought I'd
> try here first.
>
> I may need to connect to an Oracle server from a Perl client on a remote
> machine without using DBD::Oracle on the client (because the
> "decision-makers" won't install Oracle client libraries on the client
> machine). Is anyone here familiar enough with DBD::pNET and pNETagent
> to know if they will work well (or at all) with DBD::Oracle on the
> server? I did a bit of google searching for
> DBD::pNET DBD::Oracle
> and
> pNETagent DBD::Oracle
>
> but did not succeed in finding an answer to my question.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>

1. Have you looked into DBD::Proxy ? That may solve your issues
if the client only needs basic SQL access. Alternately, the
"new kid on the block" is DBD::Gofer which offers some
improvements for HA/stateless access, as well as an HTTP
based protocol that may get thru firewalls more easily.

2. You should consider subscribing to dbi-users [at] perl.org;
there may be more expert eyeballs to respond to your
query.

HTH,
Dean Arnold
Presicient Corp.

On 2007-08-24, Dean Arnold <dean.arnold [at] sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Jim Cochrane wrote:
>> Not sure if I should post this in comp.lang.perl.misc, but thought I'd
>> try here first.
>>
>> I may need to connect to an Oracle server from a Perl client on a remote
>> machine without using DBD::Oracle on the client (because the
>> "decision-makers" won't install Oracle client libraries on the client
>> machine). Is anyone here familiar enough with DBD::pNET and pNETagent
>> to know if they will work well (or at all) with DBD::Oracle on the
>> server? I did a bit of google searching for
>> DBD::pNET DBD::Oracle
>> and
>> pNETagent DBD::Oracle
>>
>> ...
>
> 1. Have you looked into DBD::Proxy ? That may solve your issues
> if the client only needs basic SQL access. Alternately, the
> "new kid on the block" is DBD::Gofer which offers some
> improvements for HA/stateless access, as well as an HTTP
> based protocol that may get thru firewalls more easily.
>
> 2. You should consider subscribing to dbi-users [at] perl.org;
> there may be more expert eyeballs to respond to your
> query.

Thanks very much for your response. I took a quick look at DBD::Gofer
and I see it doesn't support transactions, which we need. I think
DBD::Proxy does, so hopefully it will work for us. (Oddly, DBD::pNET
and DBD::Proxy appear to be written by the same person (Jochen Wiedmann),
yet docs for one don't refer to the docs for the other. It looks like
DBD::pNET may have served as a base for DBD::Proxy.)

I think I'll take your suggestion and subscribe to dbi-users [at] perl.org.
I suspect they'll have more useful info/advice about these tools. I'm
also going to try posting on comp.lang.perl.misc - I suspect a lot of
DBI users hang out there, too.

Thanks!


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