JApplewhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 1. Can Exception Handling be easily done in Perl? If so, any good examples I can point them to? Yes. use DBI; my $dbh = DBI->connect( 'dbi:Oracle:','', '', { ora_session_mode => 2, # / as sysdba PrintError => 0 #Suppresses the automatic error reporting to STDERR } ) or die "Cannot connect: $DBI::errstr\n"; my $sth = $dbh->prepare( "select foo from bar" ) or print "Caught an exception preparing the cursor: $DBI::errstr\n"; print "Duh, I'm still alive! Now I can do something since I know I caught an error\n"; $dbh->disconnect; Regards, Jeremiah Wilton ORA-600 Consulting http://www.ora-600.net -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l