Trying to run external dbs script from PERL

Question

I am trying to execute a simple statement from inside a DBI connection of PERL. Here is the statement:
$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:${service}","${owner}","${owner}",{ RaiseError => 1}) || die "Database connection not made: $DBI::errstr\n";
$sth = $dbh->prepare("\@c:\\perl\\scripts\\test.sql");
$rv = $sth->execute;
while ( (@row = $sth->fetchrow_array) ) {
     print "row=@row\n";
The error I get is invalid sql statement
Its on a Windows box and I can't figure out how to call an external script to run in Oracle. If anyoen knows, it would be greatly appreciated
Thanks

Answer 1

$sth = $dbh->prepare("\@c:\\perl\\scripts\\test.sql");You can't prepare a SQL statement like this. This is not sql statement. It's rather a way of sqlplus calling external script file. A SQL statement is something like
select user from dualIf you want do this, maybe it's better just
`$ORACLE_HOME\bin\sqlplus -s user/pass@tns @c:\perl\scripts\test.sql`