After the usual tests for parameters etc the initial action in the Perl script is a chdir into /home/interface/debtors/payroll and a call to SQLPLUS.

Is there a good reason why the perl script doesn't use DBI and connect to Oracle directly? Whatever sql script is being passed to sqlplus could simply be run through DBI instead.

This would require putting information into the script that is needed for making the connection to oracle, but you need to do that anyway to run sqlplus.

(I'm not asking for the sake of being dogmatic. If there is a good reason for using sqlplus from a perl script, rather than using DBI, others at the Monastery would benifit from knowing some details.)

In reply to Re: Perl/UNIX permissions/env by graff
in thread Perl/UNIX permissions/env by Ronnie

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