I'd let DBI take care of the quoting

my $message = "Couldn't connect: Net::FTP: Timeout ";
my $dbh = db_connect();
my $sql = qq{ INSERT INTO tblErrorLog (clientID, streamID, errorDetail
+s) VALUES (?, ?, ?)};
my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $sql );
$sth->execute($clientID, $streamID, $message);
$sth->finish();
db_disconnect($dbh);
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--perlplexer