ppm install SQLDBA-ParseSQL did not work. My bad luck. I will try installing Strawberry perl and see if it will have it. Thanks for the command.

Strawberryperl won't have it either since it is not distributed on CPAN

The book says => To verify the installation is correct, do the following :

cmd> perl -e "use File::Copy;"

cmd> perl -e "use Data::Dumper;"

cmd> perl -e "use Win32::ODBC;"

cmd> perl -e "use Getopt::Std;"



All these commands return blank line which means the 
installation is correct. They look for Copy.pm in File 
subdirectory , Dumper.pm in Data subdirectory etc and the 
directory and the perl module (pm) files are indeed 
present. 

However looking for SQLDBA::ParseSQL gives the following error

cmd> perl -e "use SQLDBA::ParseSQL;"
Can't locate SQLDBA/ParsSQL.pm in @INC 
(@INC containts: C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl64/lib .) at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.



But i am not seeing SQLDBA subdirectory under either 
C:\PERL64\lib or C:\PERL64\site\lib; So i created SQLDBA
 subdirectory under both the above directories and tried 

cmd> ppm install SQLDBA-ParseSQL

It ends up giving me the following message:

Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...done
Updating ActiveState Package Repository database...done
Syncing site PPM database with .packlists...done
ppm instail failed: Can't find any package that provides 
SQLDBA-ParseSQL.

Also , i would like to know where to find and edit the 
@INC entry. I am working in Windoz and the path should 
have backslash (\) and not forward slash (/). 

Any suggestions would be welcome. 

Ok. The author mentions the following are the functions exported by the SQLDBA::Utility

dbaReadINI()
dbaReadConfig()
dbaInSet()
dbaSetCommon()
dbaSetDiff()
dbaSetSame()
dbaRemoveDuplicates()
dbaTime2str()
dbaStr2time()
dbaTimeDiff()
dbaStringDiff()
dbaSaveRef()
dbaReadSaveRef()
dbaRunQueryADO()
dbaRunOsql()
dbaGetTree()

I am seeing the code for the functions. How do i arrive at 
the .pm file? Do i just concatenate them together or is 
there any import module? If so how do i do that?


Thanks

Ok. I found the solution. The .pm files were present in a 
separate folder as part of the download. It took me a while 
to figure this one out. Don't understand why it was kept 
separately.

Thanks for those who came to my help.