I installed the Perl build from active state on my 64 bit windows 7 machine. However I have to be able to connect to an Oracle 8I database using a 10g client. The 10g client can connect to the database with no problems, but when I try to use DBI it says that that version is no longer supported. I looked up the newest version that will support my database and it is version 1.20 I was able to download the 1.20 version for DBD::Oracle from CPAN but following the instructions I can't get it to replace the version used by my 64 bit version of Perl. Does anyone know how to do this. It is very frustrating. By the way version 1.20 will talk to all versions of the database, it just doesn't support the newest bells and whistles.

In reply to HOW CAN i DOWNGRADE DBD::Oracle by BillB

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