Hi! I'm trying to write a script to parse a large CSV and upload the contents to an Oracle 10g XE database. I'm running Strawberry Perl on a win32 machine and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a lot of support for DBI modules. I managed to get DBD::Oracle off CPAN and install it, but when I try to test something as simple as a select call I just get this: DBD::Oracle::st fetchrow_array failed: ERROR no statement executing (perhaps you need to call execute first) [for Statement "select npi, entity_type_code from system.physician where npi = 1326041310"] at upload-npi.pl line 31. until I hit ^C. This is my code: 
#!usr/bin/perl

use DBI;
use strict;

my $dsn = 'DBI:Oracle:XE';
my $user = 'scott';
my $pass = 'tiger';
my $dbh;
my $sth;
$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $pass) || die $dbh->errstr;

$sth = $dbh->prepare('select npi, entity_type_code from physician wher
+e npi = 1326041310');
$sth->execute();
while( my @line = $sth->fetchrow_array ) {print @line;}

$sth->finish();
$dbh->disconnect();

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The table and the data I'm calling does exist in the database. I have a feeling the code is fine, and the problem has to do with my installation of the DBI module, but I'm not sure. Thanks!

In reply to Can't execute statements with DBD::Oracle by aremaref

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