First of all thank for you input. I would like to clarify on my last post. No, I have not as of yet done anything with any of the modules. I have only read about being able to do what I'm trying to accomplish with Oracle on MySql. So now that I have everything installed, all I have to do is start with the code writing. In fact Ive started and now im getting an error regarding "DBI" and "DBD::Oracle". Everything installed just fine, but the error reads: DBI->connect(T:melchior:dev01) failed: ORA-06401: NETCMN: invalid driver designator (DBD ERROR: OCIServerAttach) at ./insert-LDB_EXTID.pl line 11 Could not connect: ORA-06401: NETCMN: invalid driver designator (DBD ERROR: OCIServerAttach) Now this is obviously an issue with the connect string. I'm fairly familar with Oracle and the Listener, and I can connect to the DB with Sql*Plus just fine. OH!~p.s. The Oracle server instance and client software are both on the same machine that I am trying to run the code on; so everything is local. Let me know what you think. I'm currently going through the docs on DBD::Oracle but haven't found anything specific to this yet. Thanks again.

In reply to Re: Re: Connecting to Oracle DB by mrmorales
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