Greetings - all perl monks from past and present. Having a hell of a time trying to set a MySQL trigger using mysql-pp. I have a data base named ec_user. inside of that I have multiple tables. ec_user.login AND ec_user.user. BOTH contain the field: type. Trying to create a MySQL Trigger that when ec_user.login.type is updated MySQL will auto update ec_user.user.type. Here is the code I have so far: 
    $sql = "CREATE TRIGGER updt_type BEFORE UPDATE ON ec_user.login.type
        BEGIN
	    INSERT INTO ec_user.user.type
	    SET ec_user.user.type = NEW.ec_user.login.type,
	    tec_id = OLD.tec_id;
	END;
    ";
    $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
    $sth ->execute() or die "Connection Error: $DBI::errstr\n";
    $sth->finish();
    $dbh->disconnect();
I didn't include the MySQL-pp connection $dbh - I will, but I don't think its relevant....... When I run this is what I the error I get: (with strict enabled) 
DBD::mysqlPP::st execute failed: #42000You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '.type
                BEGIN
                        INSERT INTO ec_user.user.type
                        SET ec_user.user.type = '',
                ' at line 1 at tables/user.pm line 106.
Connection Error: #42000You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '.type
                BEGIN
                        INSERT INTO ec_user.user.type
                        SET ec_user.user.type = '',
                ' at line 1
Compilation failed in require at C:\inetpub\wwwroot\TEC\++ Database ++\db\db.pl line 250.
Thanks for the help in advanced!

In reply to MySQL-pp, Perl and MySQL Triggers by skosterow

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