Hello Monks! I am somewhat new to PERL and wanted to get some help in error handling for DB access. I have written the below code for a simple record INSERT, which works perfectly fine, but I know there is room for improvement and would appreciate it if you guys can offer any tips for error handling. Thanks in advance!

use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;

my $server_name = 'Smoke\Reporting';
my $database_name = 'DBtest';

#do not need user/pass to connect
my $DSN = "driver={SQL Server};server=$server_name;database=$database_
+name;"; 

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN");

if (!$dbh) {            #testing connection to DB
    print "Could not connect to database: $DBI::errstr";
}

if($dbh) {
    print "Connected to DB!!";
}

my $sql = "INSERT INTO RecordCount VALUES ('filename','date','count')"
+;
  
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->{ChopBlanks} = 1;
$sth->execute();
  
$dbh->disconnect();

exit 0;

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