But fetchrow_hashref is much slower than the other fetch methods. It doesn't really matter if you fetch just a single row, but when traversing thousands of records, you will notice. For speed use bind_columns (the last example of that section shows how to get the best of both worlds). Here are some (older) speed compares for different database types:
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