Originally posted by gopi

Can you use a valid user with sysdba privs?
Unfortunately, you can connect with a userid/password of a sysdba user, but still not able to perform sysdba functions unless you specify "as sysdba". In PRO*C, you would have to:
Code:
EXEC SQL 
    CONNECT :sys IDENTIFIED BY :SYS-PASSWD IN SYSDBA MODE 
END-EXEC.
but I can't figure out how to do it in Perl...