> See the last paragraph of the following subsection of the DBI > documentation: > > http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI/DBI.pm#prepare > > It says: > > >Some command-line SQL tools use statement terminators, like a > >semicolon, to indicate the end of a statement. Such terminators > >should not normally be used with the DBI.
Ah. That makes it clearly user error then. Thanks Charles for the quick reply. Regards, Mark. -- Mark Lawrence