Generally stuff like this is a bit outside my depth, but I'll try to follow along. Apologies if I have to ask you to explain things to me like I'm a five year old.

It's odd, searching for the proper Makefile.PL to edit and going in to "C:\Strawberry\cpan\build" of my install I show 12 different "DBD-Oracle-1.80" directories just progressively numbered all last modified a couple days ago when I was trying to get that module installed and working for me properly.

I tried deleting them all but the original "DBD-Oracle-1.80-0" one and updating the Makefile in it as you suggested, but it didn't seem to help. I also tried deleting them all and reinstalling form CPAN but got the same result.

I did have to mess around with my system PATH variable after installing a suitable version of Oracle Client, I mostly followed afoken's guide here. Currently my system PATH variable has "C:\Strawberry\Perl\bin" at the top followed by "%ORACLE_HOME%\bin". If I recall, one issue I had is that when those were flipped my system kept loading an earlier version of Perl out of the Oracle directory instead of the Strawberry\Perl directory.

Just another Perl hooker - My clients appreciate that I keep my code clean but my comments dirty.

In reply to Re^2: DBD::Oracle::st fetchrow_hashref failed: ORA-25401 by perldigious
in thread RESOLVED - DBD::Oracle::st fetchrow_hashref failed: ORA-25401 by perldigious

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