In general, if there's a package from ActiveState for it, then it should just work. I've never used DBD::Oracle myself so I couldn't say if there's anything special in the way of configuration.

This dbi-announce message leads me to believe the page you mentioned earlier about the module needing 5.6.1 or earlier is outdated or incorrect. The message is a recount of a successful test with 5.8.7 by someone who develops the module.

I do know that ActiveState has a support site. This page states that PPM versions no longer exist due to licensing issues, but that page is copyright 2004 so things may have changed yet again by now. Indeed, this PPM info page from 2006 says there is now a DBD::Oracle based around the Oracle Instant Client Library available for ActiveState Perl on Windows. Both of those pages suggest DBD::ODBC might be the way to go. This 2008 support exchange states that the only way to get DBD::Oracle to work for ActiveState Perl 5.8 and 5.10 is to build from CPAN source because ActiveState doesn't have the InstantClient version done yet. This one says that 5.10.0.1003 has DBD::Oracle included.

I've read good things just now about DBD::Oracle 1.19 from the trouchelle.com PPM repository. It seems some people have better luck using that PPM than the one from ActiveState.

YMMV, of course. I'm not a user of the module.

In reply to Re^3: Having trouble trying to use DBD::Oracle with ActivePerl 5.8.8... by mr_mischief
in thread Having trouble trying to use DBD::Oracle with ActivePerl 5.8.8... by willjones

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