Thanks for the quick response. I did previously install Oracle client 10g. I just assumed all I would need to do is install this module and would work out of the box, so to speak. TNSNames.ora is already setup...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 use DBI;
 $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:oracle:sid','username','password')
 or die "Connection Error: $DBI::errstr\n";
 $sql = "select * from samples";
 $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
 $sth->execute
 or die "SQL Error: $DBI::errstr\n";
 while (@row = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
 print "@row\n";
 }
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