FW: Db ping function

  • From: "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:31:31 -0400

Ok, Perl experts....any thoughts/comments/suggestions on this one?
Any way to disable this?

Mark J. Bobak
Oracle DBA
ProQuest Company
Ann Arbor, MI

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Douglass [mailto:philip.douglass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:23 PM
To: Bobak, Mark
Subject: Db ping function


FYI: select SYSDATE from DUAL /* ping */ is the method by which the
DBD::Oracle perl module checks to make sure it has a connection to the
database. It's not in our code -- it's in the perl DBI/DBD code! There
has
to be some way to disable it, because I'm pretty sure it's not
necessary.

--=20
Philip Douglass
Database Administrator
ProQuest Information and Learning
(561) 994-0079 x7223
www.proquestk12.com

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