Errata

Programming the Perl DBI

Errata for Programming the Perl DBI

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Printed Page 84
table

There is a listed errata for the syntax line in the "mSQL" section of this tabl
eon this site.

The example line in same the section is written as:

dbi:mSQL:fowliswester.arcana.co.uk:archaeo:1114

If following the new syntax, it should be changed to:

dbi:mSQL:archaeo:fowliswester.arcana.co.uk:1114

145] Program: ch06/dbhdump;
It works OK.
But there is 3 messages come out when execute $dbh->table_info(). It is same problem on calling $dbh->tables(). The 3 messages are the same as listed below :

Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/aix-thread/DBD/Oracle.pm line 327

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 181
examples using DBI_AUTOPROXY

A reader has reported that they needed to add a semicolon character before
"hostname=" for the examples to work. If so then that may be a bug in the
DBD::Proxy module.

 Anonymous