Hello mighty Monks,

I am familiar with vanilla usage of the DBI but today I need to do something more complex. I need to join tables in totally different databases.

I have a firebird 1.5 DB and an oracle 9i DB. Firebird has usage tables I want to report on and Oracle has the granular user/location detail I need. There is a common UID column coexisting in both DBs to join with. For various reasons the data just has to stay where it is, I can’t move the oracle data into firebird or vice-a-versa.

I could build a meta-database and pull all the data from both sources into it on a scheduled basis, then report on that. I would prefer not to have to maintain an entirely separate database. Google pulled up DBI-Link which does what I want as far as creating pseudo tables from external data sources, but it appears to only work inside of postgreSQL, which takes me back to the separate database issue.

What I would like to do is build the join in code using Perl DBI. Is this possible or am I barking up the wrong tree?

TIA Mike

In reply to DBI sanity check by mring

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