Hi all. New to Perl and new to DBI, though not new to scripting and databases in general. My script hangs when I try to add a WHERE clause to the SQL. This code works fine : my $sql; $sql = "SELECT * FROM images order by file_number limit 20"; $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $password) or die ($DBI::errstr); $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die $DBI::errstr; $dbh->{RaiseError} = 1; $rv = $sth->execute;
If I put a where in the SQL, the script hangs indefinitely. my $sql; $sql = "SELECT * FROM images WHERE file_number = 1000002"; $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $password) or die ($DBI::errstr); $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die $DBI::errstr; $dbh->{RaiseError} = 1; $rv = $sth->execute; The SQL in the second block runs fine in my MySQL query window. Not sure what's going on. Can I not pass an actual value into the prepare statement? Do I have to use a placeholder? Any light shed appreciated .... as the gardener said ;-) Mark