I just installed Strawberryperl 10.0.1 on windows xp and I am trying to connect to Oracle. My code looks like this 
#! /usr/bin/perl

use DBI;
use strict;
use warnings;

print "Hello.\n";
my $dsn = 'dbi:Oracle:sid=ORCL';
my $user = 'MyID';
my $password = 'MyPWD';
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,$user,$password,RaiseError => 1, AutoCommi
+t => 0)
            || die "Database connection failed: $DBI::errstr";
print "Database connection succeeded.\n";
$dbh->disconnect();
print "Bye, bye ;-)\n";
exit

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When I run the script I get the "Hello" message, and 2 perl messages. Can't use string ("1") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at ../strawberry/perl/site/lib/DBI.pm line 560. DBI->connect using 'old-style' syntax is deprected and will be in error in future versions at DBITest.prl line 24. I'm not too concerned about the syntax message, but obviously the first message is a showstopper. Can somebody help me out with the message from DBI.pm and, if possible, point me to some documentation on the 'new-style' syntax? Thanks

In reply to Error messages from DBI by nbierman

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