Hi again,
Doh!!!
Well...Ehr...My only explanation is the classic:
"Sometimes you don't see the forest because of all the trees" hehe.
Actually, deep inside my head there was a buzz telling me that this
number perhaps may be a memory address due to some weird thing.
Well, there we have it, erroneous referencing.
It all works like a charm now!...Obviously.
Thanks for your help!
/Thomas
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Michael Peppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Möller wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to the usage of the FreeTDS and DBD::Sybase combination.
> > I am seemingly able to connect to the DB correctly. It may perhaps
> > be as simple as my MSSQL syntax is failing? I have verified that
> > I am at all able to communicate correctly with the database by
> > using the tool "tsql" which work like a charm giving me the
> > expected results.
> >
> > However, when executing the classical test PERL script to fetch
> > the server version:
>
>
> >
>
> > if($sth->execute) {
> > @dat = $sth-fetchrow;
> > print "@dat\n";
> > }
>
> If that's the actual script you ran then the error is in the fetchrow()
> call above. You do
> $sth-fetchrow;
> instead of
> $sth->fetchrow;
>
> As you don't have "use strict", nor warnings, perl lets you do this
> without complaining. In this case it interprets "fetchrow" as a string,
> which evaluates to 0 in a numerical context ($sth - 0), which returns a
> number.
>
> Michael
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