Perl Version: 5.8.6 DBD:Oracle 1.16 DBD:ODBC 1.13 DBI 1.48 unixODBC 2.2.10 freetds 0.63RC10 OS: HPUX 11.11 Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks, Derek #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use DBI; my $odbc = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:dbx","UID","PASS",{RaiseError=>1, PrintError=>1,AutoCommit=>1}); my $oracle = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:dbo","UID","PASS",{RaiseError=>1, PrintError=>1,AutoCommit=>1}); my $sth = $oracle->prepare("select sysdate from dual"); ------- ERROR OUTPUT: DBD::Oracle::db prepare failed: ORA-24373: invalid length specified for statement (DBD ERROR: OCIStmtPrepare) [for Statement "select sysdate from dual"] at ./bug.pl line 10. DBD::Oracle::db prepare failed: ORA-24373: invalid length specified for statement (DBD ERROR: OCIStmtPrepare) [for Statement "select sysdate from dual"] at ./bug.pl line 10.