After the first push it prints out:

1 : 1111

After the second push its like:

2 : 2222
2 : 2222

So I'm thinking I'm loosing the reference to the first entry 1 : 1111. But for my purposes I need to be able to access this list after the loop. So do I need fetchrow_array instead of fetchrow_arrayref to be able to keep the previous entries? And if so, how would that change the syntax of the embeded array? Thanks alot! bW