If you're of an object-oriented attitude then I'd take a look at Class::DBI, which allows you to quickly create an object based interface to tables. I find it very useful and a huge timesaver.

As for the "no. of tries" problem - having 5 tables, one for each try, probably isn't the best solution (what happens when somebody decides you need 4 or 6 tries? what happens when you need to add a little bit more info on each try?)

Instead have a table with a primary key of "jobid" & "try number" so you would have something like this:

jobid  try  server  stunit  ... etc ...
    1    1     foo     bar
    1    2 fribble     baz
    2    1    feep  babble

... and so on ...
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This way you're only ever messing with a single table. Makes your code (and future maintainence) much easier.

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