I think if I had to do a similar thing, I'd rather use a module off the CPAN instead of re-inventing the wheel. There's actrually a pretty good Perl module that allows you to copy database content between multiple sources. Take a look at the DBIx::Copy module. 
use DBIx::Copy; 
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:ODBC:ReportDB') or die "Error opening DB: 
+$DBI::errstr\n"; 

my %options=();

my $copy_handler= DBIx::Copy->new($dbh, $dbh, \%options);

$copy_handler->copy (['dbo_Bulletins', 'knownbulletins']);

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Althought, I haven't had the chance to test this code, give the module a good try. I'm hopeful it should help.

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In reply to Re: Help Copying records from one table to another. by vladb
in thread Help Copying records from one table to another. by Anonymous Monk

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