Hi. Sorry if this turns out to be a newbie mistake, but I've run into an odd problem while using DBD::Oracle. For some reason, my sql statement results in empty strings. Instead of getting the value i want to see there is a "''," (please see below). The amount of columns (6 in this case) are correct. I'm using perl v5.8.8, DBD::Oracle v1.19, Oracle instantclient-basic - instantclient-devel and sqlplus. Does someone know what i'm doing wrong? When i manually do a query with help of sqlplus of the Oracle instant client it is ok (see below). This is the result with the empty strings when using DBD::Oracle : main::(db1.pl:47): my $result = $sth-<dump_results; DB>1 '', '', '', '', '', '' '', '', '', '', '', '' '', '', '', '', '', '' '', '', '', '', '', '' '', '', '', '', '', '' 5 rows This is the result when using sqlplus : node1# ./sqlplus login/login@//ip:port/db SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Wed Oct 10 10:36:34 2007 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Compatible Release 9.2.0.4.0 Oracle Rdb OCI Server Release 7.1.6.2.1 - Production, Level 1.7 Oracle Rdb SQL Release 7.1.4.0.0 - Production SQL> select * from table; table1 ta table3 t table5 table 6 ------ -- ------ - ------ ------------- 004400 10 075935 0 075935 1 004400 10 075938 0 075938 1 520020 71 127464 0 127464 1 004400 10 075939 0 075939 1 004400 10 075945 0 075945 1 5 rows selected. SQL this is the code i'm using : #!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; use DBD::Oracle; $ENV{'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'} = '/home/httpd/perl/instantclient_11_1/'; #$ENV{'NLS_LANG'} = 'AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8'; #$ENV{'NLS_LANG'} = 'AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8'; #$$ENV{'NLS_NCHAR'} = 'AL32UTF8'; #$ENV{'NLS_NCHAR'} = 'UTF8'; #$ENV{NLS_LANG}="AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MACROMAN8S"; #$ENV{'NLS_LANG'} = 'WE8ISO8859P1'; #$ENV{'NLS_LANG'} = 'WE8MSWIN1252'; #$ENV{'NLS_LANG'} = 'US7ASCII'; #$ENV{'NLS_LANG'} = 'UTF8'; #$ENV{'NLS_LANG'} = 'AL32UTF32'; $ENV{NLS_LANG} = 'american_america.we8iso8859p1'; my $host= my $sid= my $port= my $user = my $passwd = my $dbh = DBI>connect("dbi:Oracle:host=$host;port=$port;sid=$sid", $user, $passwd) or die "Unable to connect: $DBI::errstr"; my $statement = 'SELECT * FROM table'; $sth = $dbh->prepare($statement); $sth->execute; my $result = $sth->dump_results; Thank you in advance, Ricardo