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Problems with DBD::Sybase on Solaris?

by chorg (Monk)
on Feb 13, 2001 at 17:50 UTC ( [id://58121]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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I'm researching a project on Solaris. Sybase is that database. One of the programmers on the project mentioned that there were some problems with DBD::Sybase on Solaris. Anyone heard anything about that?
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Re: Problems with DBD::Sybase on Solaris?
by clemburg (Curate) on Feb 13, 2001 at 18:00 UTC

    Go to the DBI Mailing Lists Archive and see for yourself ...

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      I suspect that this bug is what is being referred to?

      In which case there is a bug, but it isn't that bad.

      FWIW about a year ago using DBD::Sybase was pretty painful, there were several bugs that caught me. (Improper type conversions on nulls, etc.) But they got cleaned up around March or so IIRC and I have not been having problems since.

Re: Problems with DBD::Sybase on Solaris?
by cadfael (Friar) on Feb 13, 2001 at 22:32 UTC
    I use both DBD::Sybase and Sybase::DBLib and CTLib at my location. Michael Peppler wrote both, and as of the last time I logged on to his web site, he seemed to think that Sybase::DBLib, etcetera were the more full-featured.

    I have been a happy user of Sybperl since before it evolved into Sybase::DBLib, CTLib, and BCP. We really don't use any Sybperl features that DBD::Sybase lacks. The only thing preventing me from rewriting old scripts is inertia. Our new scripts are written using DBI/DBD.

    DBD::Sybase is still evolving, but for most purposes it suffices, and there is a lot to be said for doing new scripts using DBI/DBD. If you ever are faced with the need to migrate from one RDBMS to another, you will be quite thankful that DBI/DBD exists.

    One caveat, though -- Sybase ASE 12.0 has taken on a new directory structure, and the client libraries are no longer found at the root of $SYBASE. This can be worked around by using $SYBASE as Sybase home, and placing a symbolic link from usr/local/sybase to the new location of the client libraries.

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