Package: libdbd-oracle-perl Version: 1.36-1 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Joost van Baal Installed-Size: 784 Depends: perl (>= 5.10.1-17squeeze2), perlapi-5.10.1, libc6 (>= 2.4), oracle-instantclient11.2-basic, libstdc++5 Filename: squeeze/libdbd-oracle-perl/libdbd-oracle-perl_1.36-1_amd64.deb Size: 343840 MD5sum: 2759ce16346654d25133b085699b5990 SHA1: df687b78e2c16e780c6f8c17752861b600a6d5f1 SHA256: bc0285ff3d8c2b67fa7a004f5d2ad5fc75de95ee200425e0ef693a6374971a2d Section: perl Priority: optional Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-Oracle/ Description: Perl access to Oracle databases for old oraperl scripts Oraperl is an extension to Perl which allows access to Oracle databases. . The original oraperl was a Perl 4 binary with Oracle OCI compiled into it. The Perl 5 Oraperl module described here is distributed with DBD::Oracle (a database driver what operates within DBI) and adds an extra layer over DBI method calls. The Oraperl module should only be used to allow existing Perl 4 oraperl scripts to run with minimal changes; any new development should use DBI directly. . The functions which make up this extension are described in the following sections. All functions return a false or undefined (in the Perl sense) value to indicate failure. You do not need to understand the references to OCI in these descriptions. They are here to help those who wish to extend the routines or to port them to new machines.