I'd have thought that if you're using DBI with placeholders (either DBI-style ? or Oracle-style :1), the DBI should handle all your, err, quoting needs, without needing to use Oracle-specific features.

However, the Oracle and Oracle8 DBD drivers do offer some support for Oracle-specific features, such as specifying the handling of BLOBs/LOBs/CLOBs. Some of these features are done through private methods on Oracle DBI objects, called via func(). (such as $oradbh->func('plsql_errstr')), and some are done as private attributes on the DBI handler. According to the DBI specification, private (database-specific attributes) of a handler are distinguished from DBI-global ones by starting with a lower-case letter

$dbh->LongTruncOK; # all DBI handles have this
$dbh->specAttribute; # not portable across databases

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hth

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update: removed an innaccurate comment about which DBI attributes are DBD-specific, and corrected syntax for dbi private method calls.

In reply to Re: Can SQL*PLUS features be set via the DBI module ? by ViceRaid
in thread Can SQL*PLUS features be set via the DBI module ? by brahma

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