# We put these next statements into a loop because we might encounter an error
	# we can recover from.   If so, the 'eval' will catch it and throw it to 'if ($@)'
	while ($sqlSuccess == 0)
	{
		eval
		{
			$dbh->{RaiseError} = 1;
			$sth = $dbh->prepare($sqlStatement);
			$sth->execute();
			print $fileHandle "rows affected - " . $sth->rows . "\n";
					

			while (my @row=$sth->fetchrow_array())
			{
				if (defined $queryFiles{$query})
				{
					print queryLog "@row\n";
				}
				$rowCount++;
			}
			$sqlSuccess = 1;
		};
		if ($@)
		{
			print $fileHandle "caught error $@\n";
			my $errString = $@;
			print $fileHandle "here err string is |$errString|\n";
			if ($errString =~ m|Table '(.*)' already exists|)
			{
				print $fileHandle "got to here\n";
				my $sql = "drop table " . $1;
				my $drop = $dbh->prepare($sql);
				$drop->execute();
			}
			else
			{
				return "Error found - $errString";
			}
		}
	}