I have this code, which fails to report an error when I deliberately use a non existing database tabel: 

use DBI;            # Load the DBI module

### Perform the connection using the Oracle driver
my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:mysql:MYDB:localhost:3306", "NYUSER", "MY
+PASS", {
  PrintError => 0,
  RaiseError => 0
} ) or die "Can't connect to the database: $DBI::errstr\n";

### Prepare a SQL statement for execution
my $sth = $dbh->prepare( "UPDATE user_settingsX set `language`=? WHERE
+ `username` = ?" )
  or die "Can't prepare SQL statement: $DBI::errstr\n";

### Execute the statement in the database
$sth->execute("fr", "admin")
  or die "Can't execute SQL statement: ",$sth->errstr,"\n";
## I also tried: "Can't execute SQL statement: $DBI::errstr\n";

### Disconnect from the database
$dbh->disconnect
  or warn "Error disconnecting: $DBI::errstr\n";

exit;

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I would expect the an error message telling me that the tabel "user_settingsX" does not exist, but the errstr is undef.

I'm using:

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In reply to DBD::mysql does not return errorstring by Skeeve

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