Hi,
Thanks for taking time to reply.
But I think my Win32 machine is just having trouble
using the DBI module.
I tried tweaking things,
and I get a variation on error messages such as:

install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load 'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/DBD/O
+racle/Orac
le.dll' for module DBD::Oracle: load_file:The specified procedure coul
+d not be f
ound at C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 166.

 at (eval 3) line 3
Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 3.
Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expecte
+d
 at C:\PlayGround\oracle.pl line 15
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I am really not sure where to go from here...