Thanks! That got me past that error. Now it is giving: 
Can't connect to data source '(LOAD_BALANCE=on)' because I can't work 
+out what driver to use (it doesn't seem to contain a 'dbi:driver:' pr
+efix and the DBI_DRIVER env var is not se
t) at H:\Projects\NLSExport\ExportNLSched.pl line 65

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With other applications that connect to our Oracle databases, we are using the Oracle tnsnames.ora file which contains the various connect string stanzas. I simply copied the same connect string from the TNS file that we normally use. So excertps from my Perl code look like this: 
use strict;
use lib 'c:/Perl/lib/DBI';
use DBI;
my $dbh;
my $dbConnectString = '(LOAD_BALANCE=on)'|| 
                      '(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=myhost1)(PORT=1521
+))'||
                      '(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=myhost2)(PORT=1521
+))'||
                      '(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=pcipJDBC.oracle.com
+))';
my $dbUser = 'myUsername';
my $dbPwd  = 'myPassword';
                                                                      
+ 
unless ($dbh = DBI->connect($dbConnectString, $dbUser, $dbPwd, {RaiseE
+rror => 0, AutoCommit => 0 })) { # Handle for PROD database connectio
+n
  die "Unable to connect to PCI Oracle as user $dbUser: $DBI::errstr: 
+$!";
}
$dbh->{RaiseError} = 1;                                               
+         # So we don't have to check every DBI call we set RaiseError
+.

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This connect string is a little more involved because of load balancing.

In reply to Re^2: Oracle 10g Database Connection Trouble by Photius
in thread Oracle 10g Database Connection Trouble by Photius

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