maybe its either that DBI/DBD::Oracle isnt thread aware

One of my previous posts references both the DBI and the DBD::Oracle docs and the fact that they both should be thread safe with Perl 5.8.something.

Im not quite sure what that second snippet is trying to do with the $orashr variable

Basically, the DBD::Oracle docs describes the $orashr var as a way to share a single db connection across multiple threads.