Ok , this is weird for me to even ask , because i have always used DBI to connect to databases whether its MySQL or Oracle. I have found this module installed by default on every installation of perl I have worked on . But, for some reason the installation on my company provided desktop or even on the unix server does not have this module (or it was stripped from base installation for some reason). How do I connect to oracle databases without DBI module?? I cannot install or build it on my machine , coz I do not have enough rights.