Hi, has anyone successfully built DBD::Oracle on VMS with Oracle 8.1.6 without using the -8 switch? I supposedly need OCI v8 for an application that wants to use LOBs. The error message when running the setup script is: DBD::Oracle::st execute failed: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes (DBD: oexfet error, e.g., can't select LOB fields using DBD::Oracle built for Oracle 7) at /perl_root/lib/site_perl/DBIx/SearchBuilder/Handle.pm line 320. RT::Handle=HASH(0x1df48c) couldn't execute the query 'SELECT * FROM Users WHERE id = ?' (formatting mine) Even after installing the ProgInt package, I seem to be missing at least oci1.h (which is included by ora_root:[rdbms]oci.h) when building for v8 (i.e. without -8). Thanks in advance for any clues, Martin -- | Martin Vorlaender VMS/WNT programmer Unix is user friendly. | work: mv@pdv-systeme.de It's just selective about | http://www.pdv-systeme.de/users/martinv/ who his friends are. | home: martin@radiogaga.harz.deThread Next