> Please keep me up to date with how you get on Michael. > > You can always find me on #dbi irc on magnet (not withstanding time > differences).
Thanks for your support, Martin. It seems that there are some actions done in a trigger that some component in the Perl-MSSQL chain doesn't like. For example, consider this block, which you can just run in SSMS as is: declare @x xml, @xmax xml, @i INT; print 'a-2'; set @i = cast( '1' as int); print 'a-1'; set @x = cast('<bla> <dt>2010-09-30T04:45:39-05:00</dt> <dt>2010-09-30T04:35:39-05:00</dt> <dt>2010-09-30T01:45:39-05:00</dt> </bla>' as xml); print 'a'; -- still prints when called from Perl set @xmax = @x.query( 'max( for $d in /bla/dt return xs:dateTime($d) )'); print 'b'; -- doesn't print any more when called from Perl print cast(@xmax as nvarchar(50)); -- not either Messages in SSMS: a-2 a-1 a b 2010-09-30T09:45:39Z Same result when put in a trigger and an insert causing the trigger to fire is done. But not when the INSERT is done from Perl. In that case the "a" still appears alright, but not the "b" nor the following max value. And the INSERT is not performed either. An abort seems to take place. Michael