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Subject: RE: Oracle odbc
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owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote:
> I need to connect my freebsd 5.4 box to an oracle 9 db to query it by
> means of perl or the statistical software R.
> How could I set up this odbc connection (I already installed
> unixODBC, but what next and how to set it up)?
> Have you any doc to suggest ( I was unable to find anything
> interesting googling!)?
> Vittorio

I use perl to query my oracle database. You need DBI and DBD::Oracle i
believe. I didn't actually install them myself so not sure what extra setup
there may be. 

If you want to use perl conceder posting this question on the
beginners@perl.org mailing list. Smart guys there.