in reply to DBI Error

You are not connecting properly, [] is for an array reference, not an array. Try something like:
use strict; use warnings; use DBI; my $dbh = DBI->connect( 'dbi:Oracle:ppp','marto','martossecretpassword +') || die "Database connection not made: $DBI::errstr"; $dbh->disconnect();
Check out the DBD::Oracle documentation for further examples.

Martin