There is a difference between the strings

'"dbi:Oracle:host=localhost;sid=nms"'

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and 
"dbi:Oracle:host=localhost;sid=nms"

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Print them both out to see it. You want the latter.

Where did you pick up the following code to build your DSN and connect to the DB? It's wrong:

    # totally wrong code
    my $dsn = "@array[0], '@array[1]', '@array[2]'";
    my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn);

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You don't want to pass a single string to DBI->connect, and the string you used is so horribly wrong in many ways it makes my head hurt. Try print $dsn; to see what $dsn contains. You want the following instead:

    my $dbh = DBI->connect(@array);

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... and you sure want a better name than @array for the connect parameters. Like, @connect_parameters, for example.

In reply to Re: no database driver specified and DBI_DSN env var not set at by Corion
in thread no database driver specified and DBI_DSN env var not set at by Anonymous Monk

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