Hi, I'm a newbie. I want to connect to the remote oracle database using perl. I tried using DBD::Oracle but everytime I try testing my script it crashes my perl interpreter and I get an error message saying "Premature end of script headers". Don't know what is wrong? Can I use DBD::ODBC for this purpose? Can anyone tell me how to connect to remote oracle database using perl? I'm working on Windows XP. My script is: - 
use CGI;
use strict;
use DBI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); # gives detailed errors

my $hostname= "sample.oracle.com";
my $sid="MYSID"; 
my $port = "1521";
my $username = "user";
my $password = 'pass';

my $dbh;
$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:host=$hostname;sid=$sid", $username, $
+password) or die "connect failed: ". DBI->errstr() unless $dbh;

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Thanks

In reply to perl remote oracle database connection by cynosure

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