Yeah, it's installed. I opened up PPM and typed DBD-Oracle in the search box. It came up and was showing as installed. I marked it for uninstall and ran the action. Then I marked it for install again after this and re-installed it. It is getting the pre-compiled module for Windows from the ActiveState site... http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.8/822/package.xml

The version number I have installed is DBD-Oracle 1.19.
I went to C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\Oracle and saw 10 files listed there one of which was Oracle.dll which is the file the error message complains about.
I suppose I could try to get DBD::ODBC working although I'd like to use DBD-Oracle if it's at all possible.
Thanks...

In reply to Re^2: Having trouble trying to use DBD::Oracle with ActivePerl 5.8.8... by willjones
in thread Having trouble trying to use DBD::Oracle with ActivePerl 5.8.8... by willjones

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