Re^2: Passing a file into DBD-Oracle

You're kinda right when you say the loop will not keep the contents of the file, except it won't even contain the contents of the last line of the file, because $record will be undef after the entire file is read, and the loop is left.

And the title of this question is misleading, he doesn't want Oracle to use the file name; instead he wants and needs to send the contents of the file.

I'm not sure what happens if you ask Oracle to execute the contents of an entire file in one go. You'll like have to split into single statements, and it's not clear how you send the source code for a package or package body. The invocation command "/" which is put after the end of a package or package body actually means "repeat the last command". How do you do the same through DBI? I have no idea.

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Re^3: Passing a file into DBD-Oracle by TJRandall (Sexton) on Feb 11, 2011 at 22:07 UTC
Overall, what I'm trying to do is to automate Oracle code builds. I check out the files locally, and then I load up a hash of hashes to keep track of what I'm loading, the compiled state, etc. So one of the key:value pairs for a named piece of code is 'full_name':'c:\..\..\..'. The files that I am working on contain Oracle functions, procedures, packages, etc. I didn't mean to be mis-leading in the Subject line - I would either (1) pass the actual file into DBI (like SQL Plus) or (2) read in the file contents, and then prepare() that. I just can't seem to get either to work. I will work on the suggestion from roboticus (thank you very much!) It didn't work on the first pass, but I will focus on the `undef` issue. Thank you!	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Passing a file into DBD-Oracle by bart (Canon) on Feb 11, 2011 at 22:54 UTC
Overall, what I'm trying to do is to automate Oracle code builds. I think your best bet is to invoke Sql*Plus from within Perl.	[reply]