Your issue is that the qq delimiter interpolates variables (see Quote and Quote like Operators). You can either swap to an operator that does not interpolate, such as q, or you can escape the $ with a backslash, like 

my $sql = qq { 
select SID,SERIAL,USERNAME,STATUS,SCHEMANAME,OSUSER,
PROCESS,MACHINE,TERMINAL,PROGRAM,TYPE,MODULE,
to_char(LOGON_TIME,'DD-MON-YY HH24:MI:SS')"LOGON_TIME",
STATE,SERVICE_NAME from v\$session order by LOGON_TIME DESC};

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If I were writing this, I would likely use a here-doc: 

my $sql = <<'EOSQL';
 
select SID,SERIAL,USERNAME,STATUS,SCHEMANAME,OSUSER,
PROCESS,MACHINE,TERMINAL,PROGRAM,TYPE,MODULE,
to_char(LOGON_TIME,'DD-MON-YY HH24:MI:SS')"LOGON_TIME",
STATE,SERVICE_NAME from v$session order by LOGON_TIME DESC}

EOSQL

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Note that the ' in the here-doc suppresses interpolation.

In reply to Re: Ignoring "$" sign in sql-statement to Oracle by kennethk
in thread Ignoring "$" sign in sql-statement to Oracle by gizmojunkee

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