Using Perl I am parsing an fixed width file and fetching few fields that are being pushed to SQL DB later.

my $Date = 20170121;     # Parsed from file
my $file = Testfilename; # Parsed from file

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Iam then making a connection to the DB and then the below lines of code follows

my $sql = "INSERT INTO TableName(Date,FileName) VALUES($Date,$file)";
my $stmt = $settle_dbh->prepare($sql);
$stmt->execute();

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Getting an error stating 

DBD::ODBC::st execute failed: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Inval
+id precision value (SQL-HY104)

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Hence I tried to check what's passing in the $sql, the single quotes seem to be missing. Which I feel might be the issue.

print $sql;
INSERT INTO TableName(Date,FileName) VALUES(20170121,Testfilename)

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Can you please help me on how to get this resolved, may be in two ways which I could think of

1. Convert the date in Perl to format 2017-01-21 00:00:00.000

2. Passing the values in single quotes to SQL DB

In reply to Error passing string date from Perl to MSSQL by JobyJ

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