Your inner loop usage of $sth overwrites the result set of the outer loop.
Use a different variable.

Hannes Niedner wrote:

> I am having trouble with DBI. I wrote a little script that should update
> fields in one table (uid_test) based on values in another table (merge). I
> updates one row and then dies with:
> 
>  os prompt: blah blah
> 
> 1       1011877 1000001
> Error during processing for table uid_test
> 
> Error 19 (fetch() without execute())
> 
> The selected values (primary_id, other_id) are both INT(12) and so are the
> fields of the target table (superceded_by, uid_new).
> 
> Please have a look at the Perl code snippet below. As I said it works for
> the first row. BTW if there is pure sql code that would do the job, I would
> be delighted to learn about.
> 
> Thanks Hannes
> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------snippet---------------------------------------------
>     #issue query
>     $sth = $dbh->prepare ( "SELECT primary_id, other_id
>                             FROM merge
>                             ORDER BY other_id"
>                          ) or &bail_out ("Cannot prepare query from merge");
>     $sth->execute () or &bail_out ("Cannot execute query from merge");
> 
>     while (@ary = $sth->fetchrow_array ()) {
>         $counter++;
>         my ($primary_id) = $ary[0];
>         my ($other_id) = $ary[1];
>         print "$counter\t$primary_id\t$other_id\n";
>         
>         #update the data in the target table
>         $sth = $dbh->prepare ( "UPDATE $table_name
>                                 SET superceded_by=$primary_id, status=\'1\',
> time=null
>                                 WHERE uid_new=$other_id"
>                              ) or &bail_out ("Cannot prepare sql (UPDATE
> $table_name)!");
>         $sth->execute () or &bail_out ("Cannot execute sql(UPDATE
> $table_name)!"); 
>   
>     }
> 
>     if (!defined($DBI::err)) {
>         print "$counter sequences retrieved from table merge, cleaned out
> and successfully updated in table niedner.$table_name.\n";
>     }else {&bail_out ("Error during processing for table $table_name\n");
>     }
>     
> 
>     #clean up
>     $sth->finish () or &bail_out ("Cannot finish query from database");
>     $dbh->disconnect () or &bail_out ("Cannot disconnect from database");
>     exit (0)
> --------------------------snippet end------------------------------------
> 
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