I have the function below that I use in perl. I build the command elsewhere as it could be a SELECT, INSERT, et al.

In one instance I am using the function to insert new records into my MySQL table. And generally it works. But occasionally it will fail on an insert, and I was hoping I could find out what the actual reason an insert failed. To be clear I am inserting over a thousand records into this table, and most work.

I even had my perl script print out the actual command that returns a nil on the result, and then I copy and paste that exact command into MySQL's terminal where it works. So even more reason to get the exact reason it failed.

I should add that the table has no index, and no unique fields.


#from elsewhere in my code ...

$db=DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:invoices',[username],[password], { RaiseEr
+ror => 0, AutoCommit => 1 });

#$rawDB is set to the table name

my $insertCommand = "INSERT INTO $rawDB (sheet_no, sheet_name, item, c
+oll, roww, category) 
VALUES ('$currentSheet', '$sheetname', '$cellData', '$curcol', '$curro
+w', '');";

my $result = insertItem($insertCommand);
#....

sub insertItem {
    (my $insertCom) = @_;
    
    $dbHandle=$db->prepare($insertCom);
    my $result = $dbHandle->execute();
    
    return $result;
}

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In reply to Can I get the actual error for DBI->execute() ? by SergioQ

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