Otherwise, ... and some fetch variant called within an C<eval> block ...
> +=head3 On use of non-C<SELECT> SQL in C<select*_*> methods > + > +While some drivers support statements other than C<SELECT> in the > above-listed > +convenience functions, others do not. Requirement of this facility is > not defined > +by the DBI interface standard. The C<do> method is provided for non-C<SELECT> > +statements. When you really don't know if the statement you have in a > variable > +is going to be a C<SELECT> or not, unrolling the process into > C<prepare>,C<execute>, > +and some C<fetch> variant will always work, as C<fetch> is defined to return > +no data when called on executed non-C<SELECT> statement handles. > + > =head3 C<prepare> > > $sth = $dbh->prepare($statement) or die $dbh->errstr;
