in reply to Retrieving data w/ dbi with a large column

Its unlikely that perl croaks on 500 characters of data.

Probably what you need to tweak, is the DBI. You need special settings in DBI if any column is a long, BLOB or similar ( check associated DBD documentation )

http://search.cpan.org/author/TIMB/DBI-1.35/DBI.pm#Handling_BLOB_LONG_Memo_Fields

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