Thanks for your input kennethk! First of all 2 & 3 were just basic testing when I first attempted this task and should have removed it when I included here as a question. I agree with 1 and 5, thats where my knowledge lacked, I have since implemented your suggestion. As for 4, I have tried to learn some more about Binding values and been trying for a good chunk of today to get it to work but keep getting different errors: Invalid character value for cast specification & Invalid string or buffer error (see below). I kinds know the former is relating to the date field but haven't figured it out yet, I am lost on the latter.

After looking up Binding values, I understand that its inefficient using interpolating values especially when executing the script multiple times as it doesnt use cached info but besides the inefficiency are there other drawbacks to interpolating? I would prefer to Bind but having spent a significant time troubleshooting the errors I am ready to give in, hence trying to evaluate the risk.

Also, the errors I get do not seem to be caught by the exception handler. Any insight on that?

DBD::ODBC::st execute failed: MicrosoftODBC SQL Server DriverInvalid charact er value for cast specification (SQL-22018) at C:\db_eval_test.pl line 67.

DBD::ODBC::st execute failed: MicrosoftODBC SQL Server DriverInvalid string or buffer length (SQL-HY090) at C:\db_eval_test.pl line 65. 

if($DB_insert =~ /true/i) {
    my $DSN = "driver={SQL Server};server=$server_name;database=$datab
+ase_name;uid=$database_user;pwd=$database_pass;"; 

    eval {
        my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN");
        DBI->trace(2,'C:\db_test_log.txt');

        my $sql = "INSERT INTO RecordCount VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?)";    
                
        my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
        $sth->bind_param(1, 'test_env');
        $sth->bind_param(2, $partner);
        $sth->bind_param(3, $id);
        $sth->bind_param(4, $filename);
        $sth->bind_param(5, "$date $time");
        $sth->bind_param(6, $line_count);
    
        $sth->execute();
        $dbh->disconnect();
    };
    if($@) {        
        print "DB Failure: $@";
    }
}

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