blackadder-

what was the error message you received?
if you're having trouble coding up it up, here's a shot at it: 
sub LookupServerID
{
    # get the servername that was passed into the function
    my $serverName = shift;

    # build the sql to select the server_id
    my $sql = "select server_id from server_tbl where server_name = '$
+serverName'"

    # execute the sql with the open $perms_db object
    if ($perms_db->Sql($sql))
    {
        # error during sql!
        print "Error:" . $perms_db->Error() . "\n";

        # return a value anyway and let the caller check for -1 
        return -1;
    }

    # process the result set
    $perms_db->FetchRow();

    # get the first row within the result set
    my(%data) = $perms_db->DataHash();

    # return the server_id to the caller
    return $data{'server_id'};

    # PLEASE NOTE:  this code does not watch out for the case where th
+e server_name does not exist.  you should code for this case.
}

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You should really take a look at this page for a good tutorial for Win32::ODBC.
There's a couple of examples there from the guys who wrote the module.

OK there champ- take another whack at it.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Inserting values into MS Access sub tables by LanceDeeply
in thread Inserting values into MS Access sub tables by blackadder

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