I'm dealing with an Oracle database via DBI and DBD::Oracle and have several questions: WARNING: TOTAL Oracle newbie!

1) Exactly What does the statement to be prepared look like when one need "dbms_metadata.set_transform_param(dbms_metadata.session_transform,'storage',false)" prior to ones "select to_char(dbms_metadata.get_ddl(object_type, object_name, owner))"?

   $STH=$DBH->prepare('_SQL_');
   dbms_metadata.set_transform_param(dbms_metadata.session_transform,'
+storage',false);
   SELECT to_char(dbms_metadata.get_ddl(object_type, object_name, owne
+r)) ...  
_SQL_

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yields "DBD::Oracle::st execute failed: ORA-01036: illegal variable name/number (DBD ERROR: OCIBindByName)...

2) From the DBI how does one "fetch" DBMS_OUTPUT's buffer?

Thanks!

In reply to DBD::Oracle DBMS_METADATA and DBMS_OUTPUT by clueless newbie

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