#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# dump.pl
# simple SQL table dump
use strict;
use DBI;

my ($db, $table) = @ARGV;
$table or die "syntax: dump database table\n";
my $driver = 'Your DBD driver name here';

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:$driver:$db",
    'myusername',
    'mypassword',
    {RaiseError=>1})
   or die "Can't open: $DBI::errstr\n";

my $sth= $dbh->prepare(qq{select * from $table});

$sth->execute();
my $fields = join "," , @{$sth->{NAME}};

my $insert_statement = qq{INSERT INTO $table ($fields)\n VALUES (};

while (my $row = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref()) {
    print $insert_statement,
          join( ",", map( {$dbh->quote($_)} @$row)),
          ");\n";
}
$dbh->disconnect;
__END__
sample output using this "department" table
+-----------+-------------+------------+
| dept_code | dept        | sort_order |
+-----------+-------------+------------+
|         1 | Personnel   |          5 |
|         2 | Training    |          2 |
|         3 | Research    |          4 |
|         4 | Sales       |          1 |
|         5 | Development |          3 |
+-----------+-------------+------------+

INSERT INTO department (dept_code,dept,sort_order) 
 VALUES ('1','Personnel','5');
INSERT INTO department (dept_code,dept,sort_order) 
 VALUES ('2','Training','2');
INSERT INTO department (dept_code,dept,sort_order) 
 VALUES ('3','Research','4');
INSERT INTO department (dept_code,dept,sort_order) 
 VALUES ('4','Sales','1');
INSERT INTO department (dept_code,dept,sort_order) 
 VALUES ('5','Development','3');

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while (my $row = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref()) {
    print  join( ",", map( {"\"$_\""} @$row)), "\n";
}

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print join("\t", @$row),"\n";

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