a couple of things to try

finish what you are doing. if you are writing a html page, send your html headers with a 'yay' or 'nay'. Write the whole query, i.e. connect, prepare, execute, disconnect. Then you should be able to find out where it is failing.

my quick two minute below

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use CGI;

$ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = "/disk2/oracle/product/10.1.0/db_1";
#declare your ORACLE_HOME in the script... (not the problem here but i
+t could become a problem later on)

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Oracle:host=host.domain.tld;sid=SID;port=1
+521', 
    'USER', 'PASS', { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 0 });



print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";


 my $sth0 = $dbh->prepare("SELECT...")
       or die "Couldn't prepare 1st statement: " . $dbh->errstr;
 $sth0->execute;
 while (my @data = $sth0->fetchrow_array()) {
     my $column1 = $data[0];
     my $column2 = $data[1]; square brackets here
  print $column1 . "\t" . $column2;
 }
 $sth0->finish;
$dbh->disconnect;

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Tobin

Code tags added by GrandFather

In reply to Re: perl remote oracle database connection by Tobin Cataldo
in thread perl remote oracle database connection by cynosure

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