Show, don't tell. Also, it's a little shorter now.
BEGIN THING TO INSERT =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: driver support for this facility is not defined by the DBI interface standard, and 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, you may unroll the process into C<prepare>, C<execute>, and C<eval {fetch*}>. END THING TO INSERT