Question

I’m converting some shell scripts to perl. All the database access is done using sqlplus. With perl is that a better way to access an Oracle database or should I just stick to sqlplus.

Answer 1

Here is a short example of usage of DBI:

use DBI;

$user = 'donny';
$password = 'ppp';
$dbconnectstring = 'basetest';
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Oracle:',$user.'@'.$password,$dbconnectstring);

Also, note you can access sqlplus – or any command line – within a perl script. Just use backticks:

`cd dasd`

For example. Not sure if you’d want to do this, but just an idea, since you said you’re converting shell to perl.