G'day SpaceCowboy,

There's multiple issues:

• Put use strict; at the top of all of your Perl code. In this case, it will highlight many lines that need to start with my.
• POD directives should be surrounded by blank lines. That's not an absolute requirement, but is needed in some cases, so it's best to do it everywhere. See "perlpod: Hints for Writing Pod".
• See "DBD::Oracle - connect()". It shows multiple formats, none of which match what you've coded.