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Folks,

I am facing a funny but troubling issue with Perl DBI & Oracle.
When my shell environment does not have ORACLE_HOME path set, my script
works fine. I am connecting
to Oracle DB like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:host=xx.gold.com;port=1522;sid=sid" ,
$eusr, $epas,{RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 1})
die "Can not connect : $DBI->errstr ";

Now,
set the ORACLE_PATH to /opt/bin/oracle/9.2.0.8
and I do try to connect but it complains that it can not connect.
-Kumar R

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In message <ff34489d0712190700r4a387567y6e61f4f61bfaac3 [at] mail.gmail.com>, "Kumar
Ranjan" writes:
>I am facing a funny but troubling issue with Perl DBI & Oracle.
>When my shell environment does not have ORACLE_HOME path set, my script
>works fine. I am connecting
>to Oracle DB like this:
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
>use strict;
>use DBI;
>my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:host=xx.gold.com;port=1522;sid=sid" ,
>$eusr, $epas,{RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 1})
> die "Can not connect : $DBI->errstr ";
>
>Now,
>set the ORACLE_PATH to /opt/bin/oracle/9.2.0.8
>and I do try to connect but it complains that it can not connect.

Is /opt/bin/oracle/9.2.0.8 the same ORACLE_HOME you used to build
DBD::Oracle?

It must be.


Do these commands work from the shell?
$ env ORACLE_HOME=/opt/bin/oracle/9.2.0.8 /opt/bin/oracle/9.2.0.8/bin/tnsping
'(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=xx.gold.com)(PORT =1522))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=sid)))'
$ env ORACLE_HOME=/opt/bin/oracle/9.2.0.8 /opt/bin/oracle/9.2.0.8/bin/sqlplus euser/epas [at] '(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=xx.gol d.com)(PORT=1522))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=sid)))'

If not, contact your DBA.

John
groenveld [at] acm.org