Yes, you need to give each checkbox a unique name. However, checking each one isn't as bad as it sounds. Set the name to something like "delete_this_$oid", as you'll see in a second.

Assuming you can pull the values from the SQL db in an array ( @oid_list ) in the script that parsed the form, you can check the checkbox status of each one as so:

foreach my $oid ( @oid_list ) {
   if ( $cgi->param( 'delete_this_$oid' ) eq 'on' ) {
       # do deleteion stuff 
   }
}
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