On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:41 PM, De DBA <dedba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > IMHO the advantage of using the Oracle supplied perl (from version 10 > upwards) is that the Oracle DBD, as well as a few handy tools such as > Mail::Sender for sending emails, are already supplied. Interesting - I just confirmed that on my own 10g and 11g installs. It had been so long since I tried using the Oracle installed Perl that I didn't know it that DBI and DBD::Oracle were installed by Oracle. I don't know how I let that get by me. :) Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com