Like I said, I've read through the tutorials here at perlmonks.

I need help right down to the syntax. It's mostly greek to me.

I connect to the DB ok, but that's where my success seems to end.
here's a snipet (keep in mind I have little idea what I'm doing here): 
my $sth = $dbh->prepare( qw/ SELECT date, title, entry FROM News / );

$sth -> execute() or die "Couldn't execute statement: $DBI::errstr; st
+opped";

while ( my ($date, $title, $entry) = $sth->fetchrow_array() ) {
        print STDOUT "Date: $date  Title: $title  Entry: $entry\n";
}

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I'm just trying (at this point) to read the three fields (date, title, and entry) from every row of the News table in this database.

In reply to Re: Re: Learning DBI by Bishma
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