That helped. Unfortunately I am not getting buffer overflow errors. The total size of the email is 40k. So I don't see why I would get a page overflow error. Any ideas?

INFO - Opening DBI connection
page overflow at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl line 126
+.
 at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl line 126.
        findMostExpensiveSQL::print_query_results(DBI::db=HASH(0x2c0d7
+00), "\x{a}SELECT * FROM (\x{a}SELECT sql_id,    TO_CHAR(MIN(last_loa
+d_time"...) called at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl li
+ne 252
page overflow at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl line 126
+.
 at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl line 126.
        findMostExpensiveSQL::print_query_results(DBI::db=HASH(0x2c0d7
+00), "\x{a}SELECT * FROM (\x{a}SELECT sql_id,    TO_CHAR(MIN(last_loa
+d_time"...) called at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl li
+ne 252
page overflow at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl line 126
+.
 at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl line 126.
        findMostExpensiveSQL::print_query_results(DBI::db=HASH(0x2c0d7
+00), "\x{a}SELECT * FROM (\x{a}SELECT t.sql_id, TO_CHAR(MIN(t.last_lo
+ad_tim"...) called at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl li
+ne 260
page overflow at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl line 126
+.
 at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl line 126.
        findMostExpensiveSQL::print_query_results(DBI::db=HASH(0x2c0d7
+00), "\x{a}SELECT * FROM (\x{a}SELECT t.sql_id, TO_CHAR(MIN(t.last_lo
+ad_tim"...) called at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl li
+ne 260
page overflow at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl line 126
+.
 at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl line 126.
        findMostExpensiveSQL::print_query_results(DBI::db=HASH(0x2c0d7
+00), "\x{a}SELECT * FROM (\x{a}SELECT t.sql_id, TO_CHAR(MIN(t.last_lo
+ad_tim"...) called at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl li
+ne 260
page overflow at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl line 126
+.
 at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl line 126.
        findMostExpensiveSQL::print_query_results(DBI::db=HASH(0x2c0d7
+00), "\x{a}SELECT * FROM (\x{a}SELECT t.sql_id, TO_CHAR(MIN(t.last_lo
+ad_tim"...) called at /home/oracle/scripts/findMostExpensiveSQL.pl li
+ne 260
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sub print_query_results {
   my $dbh                = shift;
   my $sql_query          = shift;
   my $sql                = SQL::Beautify->new;
   my ( $sql_id, $min_last_load_time, $buffer_gets, $disk_reads, $exec
+utions, $sorts, $parse_calls, $sql_fulltext );
   my $return_scalar      = qq{
};

   my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $sql_query );
   my $formatted_sql;

   $sth->execute();
   $sth->bind_columns( undef, \$sql_id, \$min_last_load_time, \$buffer
+_gets, \$disk_reads, \$executions, \$sorts, \$parse_calls, \$sql_full
+text );

format OUTPUT =
@|||||||||||||||@||||||||||||||||||||@|||||||||||||||@|||||||||||||||@
+|||||||||||||||@|||||||||||||||@|||||||||||||||
'SQL_ID',       'min_last_load_time','buffer_gets',  'disk_reads',   '
+executions',   'sorts',        'parse_calls',
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<@>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>@>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>@>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>@
+>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>@>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>@>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
$sql_id,        $min_last_load_time, $buffer_gets,   $disk_reads,    $
+executions,    $sorts,         $parse_calls,

@*
$sql_fulltext

.

   open OUTPUT, '>', \$return_scalar;
   while( $sth->fetch() ) {
      $formatted_sql = SQL::Beautify->new;
      $formatted_sql->query( $sql_fulltext );
      $sql_fulltext = $formatted_sql->beautify;;
      OUTPUT->flush();
      write OUTPUT;
   }
   close OUTPUT;

   return $return_scalar;
}
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2018-09-22 Athanasius added code tags

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In reply to Re^2: I need outputting the results of a query in a formatted way to a scalar, so that I can email the results by gandolf989
in thread I need outputting the results of a query in a formatted way to a scalar, so that I can email the results by gandolf989

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