newbie: help first time with oracle

senget76 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi there I am not sure how to explain this, must be a laugh material afterwards. I want to connect to oracle database. to let you know, I not really know about oracle, the one I know is to do select and update statement. When I try DBI, another problem arise. The perl script that I wrote is on other machine, and oracle on other machine. I heard about oracle client, but how to configure it so I could use it with DBI?, pls guide me

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Re: newbie: help first time with oracle by metadatum (Scribe) on Jul 03, 2002 at 17:12 UTC
You need to install the Oracle client software, and configure the networking (tnsnames.ora file). Make sure you can connect using SQL*Plus first. Once that is successful, make sure that DBI and DBD::Oracle are installed correctly (make test). Then, post your script and the errors that you are receiving. Good Luck!	[reply]

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