RE: use DBI to connect to remote DBs

2003-05-30 Thread Bob Showalter
Johnson, Shaunn wrote: > Howdy: > > This is probably a silly question. Let's say > that I want to pull data from a remote database > (say, NT or Mainframe). OK. > > For DB2, am I to understand that I need to > install client software package, connect to > that client and THEN run the perl DBI::

RE: use DBI to connect to remote DBs

2003-05-30 Thread Dan Muey
Not sure about the others but if I use DBI to connect to remote mysql the machine the script using DBI is on doesn't have to have anythign about mysql on it. I assume it is the same with the rest of them assuming you have the proper set up to login remotely. HTH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EM

use DBI to connect to remote DBs

2003-05-30 Thread Johnson, Shaunn
Howdy: This is probably a silly question. Let's say that I want to pull data from a remote database (say, NT or Mainframe). For DB2, am I to understand that I need to install client software package, connect to that client and THEN run the perl DBI::DB2 mods to get data from the remote DB2 server