Actually, there is a point to DBI::Proxy. And yes, it can be used hapilly for this example.

The point is, that the windows box only needs perl and DBI installed. It doesn't need any of the database specific drivers. Instead, it uses DBI::Proxy to talk to a DBI::Proxy server, and that then uses the database specific libraries it has access to, to do the actual work.

I've used this before, myself, as it meant that I didn't have to go around installing the Oracle client tools on Unix boxen where I wasn't given that much space...

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