On 8/17/05, Strong <s-strong@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I need t write perl script to work with one of the subject-servers. But > i found only mysql in my FC4-distribution. So, is there free SQL or > Oracle servers for FC4? - Or is possible to write it for mysql, and it > will work with SQL? Are you saying that you need to connect from a Linux box to an already existing Oracle server? All Perl database connectivity is provided thru the DBI module (which you can get from CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/>. You'll also need the correct DBD module for your database (in this case DBD::Oracle). These are available from the same place. These modules are free. However, in order to install DBD::Oracle, you will also need the Oracle client libraries installed on your client system. These are provided by Oracle, but I don't know whether or not they are available for free. Similar arguments apply to connections to MS SQLServer, but in that ase you'll probably need DBD::Sybase (or, at least, that was the best option when I last did this many years ago). Alternatively, if you're looking to install a new database system from scratch then (as others have said) you should look at PostgreSQL which is an open source database system which is as powerful as Oracle. I believe that the Oracle database system is available for Linux. But I doubt that it will be free. Dave...
