I am running on a Windows 2000 professional system with a local Oracle 9i developer database. I would like to use DBI to access my Oracle database on this system, and in the future access other Oracle databases not on this system and thus probably of different versions.

I have tried installing Active State Perl 5.8.1 only to find that DBD-Oracle is not available via PPM. I uninstalled and then install Active State Perl 5.6.1 and find that PPM is now not performing properly, and thus I now can install neither the Oracle DBI component nor DBD-Oracle. I also started seeing what appeared to be version conflicts so I uninstalled all Perl, deleted my c:\perl file tree and tried again. I continue to have the problems with PPM though the version conflicts appear to be resolved.

I have once again uninstalled all Perl components and removed my c:\perl file tree to start clean. (is this a clean start or are there other things I need to do?)

What version of Perl should I be using?

Given that version of Perl, which bits should I be using to access my Oracle database and how should I install them?

Any other suggestions for someone who, while quite familiar with Perl and databases, have only accessed databases through a former company's proprietary perl module and thus am unfamiliar with the standard database access modules?

Thank you Monks for your help with this seemingly mainstream Perl issue.

In reply to Oracle 9I DBI on windows install question by mgibian

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