/ as sysdba stopped working post oracle patching

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$tdb = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:","/",undef, { ora_session_mode => ORA
+_SYSDBA }) or &errHand("5","Database is unavailable.");
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Re: / as sysdba stopped working post oracle patching
by cavac (Parson) on Dec 05, 2024 at 10:13 UTC

You didn't provide any details for us to really understand your problem. Please provide a Short, Self-Contained, Correct Example. It certainly would also help to know more about this "Oracle patching". From what version to what version did you upgrade? What are the relevant changes/releasenotes? Any documented incompatibilities with older clients? Changes to security settings? Deprecated features?

On first glance, this sounds more like a database problem than a Perl problem.

Just in case, try to reinstall the Oracle client libraries and DBD::Oracle. There might be an API/ABI mismatch that prevents a proper connection. Does your command line client (running under the same OS user) work with the same login information?

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