i am writing FTP errors to a database but am aencountering problems if the ftp error contains a quote. 
$message="Couldn't connect: Net::FTP: Timeout ";

my $dbh = db_connect();
    
    my $sql = qq{ INSERT INTO tblErrorLog (clientID, streamID, errorDe
+tails) VALUES ($clientID, $streamID, '$message')};
    #db_execute_query($dbh, $sql);
        
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $sql );
    $sth->execute();
    $sth->finish();
            
    db_disconnect($dbh);

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As you can see the $message contains a "'". I have used the qq() operator but I still get an error unless i remove the single quote from within. The error i get is 
DBD::ODBC::st execute failed: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]COUNT
+ field incorrect or syntax error (SQL-07001)(DBD: st_execute/SQLExecu
+te err=-1) at wmsdb.pl line 73. INSERT INTO tblErrorLog (clientID, st
+reamID, errorDetails) VALUES (1, 8, 'Couldn't connect: Net::FTP: Time
+out ')

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Can anyone help?

Title edit by tye

In reply to trouble using the qq operator with DBI by costas

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