[DBI-users] New in DBI

Hernan:

In your string 'dbi:Oracle:db', the characters 'db' need
to be replaced with your Oracle SID. For example, if
your database's SID is 'TEST' (e.g.: you connect to the
database with "sqlplus system/manager@TEST"), then
your code should read 'dbi:Oracle:TEST'.

HTH,
Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Hernan Arredondo
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:11 AM
To: dbi-users@perl.org
Subject: New in DBI

Hi all, I'm new in DBI and I'm really stuck, some can explain me this code:

use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect( 'dbi:Oracle:db',
'$username',
'$passwd',
) or die "$DBI::errstr";
EOF

its supposed I get a connection with that ?

'dbi:Oracle:db' -> this is the driver and the database associated,
where I can config the host where the Oracle DB resides ?

Please excuse if my question is stupid but I search in the docs and
nothing about this is explained....

Hernan Dario A.

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software consistently finds new ways to eat up the extra speed

Hernan Arredondo wrote:

Hi all, I'm new in DBI and I'm really stuck, some can explain me this
code:

use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect( 'dbi:Oracle:db',
'$username',
'$passwd',
) or die "$DBI::errstr";
EOF