Has anyone had experience of remote access to Oracle database from Windows platform? By doing some research, I found that here are the steps:

1. install active perl
2. install DBI module
3. install DBD::ODBC module
4. install Oracle client on windows.
5. set environment variable (ORACLE_HOME)

Is there anything I've missed? If not, I've done step 1 through 3 but not sure about step4. Should I install Oracle INSTANT client? http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html

But on the installation instruction, it says: All installations REQUIRE the Basic or Basic Lite package.

Do you know what it means? What is Basic or Basic Lite package?

If I finish the installation of Oracle client on my windows, the java connection url for the oracle database is like this:
jdbc:oracle:thin:@10.2.3.0:1521:ORADB

Using perl, is this what I should do? (can hostname contain port number too?)

my $driver = "ODBC";
my $database = "ORADB";
my $hostname = "10.2.3.0:1521";
my $dsn = "DBI:$driver:database=$database;host=$hostname";
my $dbuser = "oradmin";
my $dbpassword = "oradminpasswd";

my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, "$dbuser", "$dbpasswd");

Many thanks to you all!

In reply to Remote Oracle database access from windows by my600080

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