C:\Strawberry\perl\bin>perl -v This is perl 5, version 28, subversion 0 (v5.28.0) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-t hread DBI ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v5.20180622) (no description) T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.642.tar.gz C:\Strawberry\perl\site\lib\DBI.pm Installed: 1.642 CPAN: 1.642 up to date DBD::Oracle ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v5.20180622) (no description) Z/ZA/ZARQUON/DBD-Oracle-1.76.tar.gz C:\Strawberry\perl\site\lib\DBD\Oracle.pm Installed: 1.76 CPAN: 1.76 up to date The code i am using is as below #!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; use DBD::Oracle; # connect to MySQL... $driver= "Oracle"; #$dsn = "DBI:$driver:ORCL;database=XXX;host=XXX:1521"; $dsn = "DBI:$driver:sid=XXX;host=XXX"; try: $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, "uname", "pwd"); #prepare and execute the SQL statement $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT column FROM table WHERE TP_ID='X'"); $sth->execute; $sth->finish(); except: print "yes"; exit;