Unfortunately, there's no real help for manually $dbh->quote()ing values that need it - we use DB2 at work, and quoting a number gives a SQL error (grrrrrrrr). That's my #1 complaint about the thing.

If you use placeholders similar to this or like in the insert_hash() example in the DBI documentation you might not have that problem. (Update: Or like in jarich's sql2 string above :) (Update: Yes, its usually the optimizer that doesn't have to parse your statement again if the database has a SQL cache, but placeholders are still worthwhile IMO, even on a database like MySQL)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: dbi style questions (code, discussion) by runrig
in thread dbi style questions (code, discussion) by deprecated

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