In a script I have something like this:

$db = DBI->connect('dbi:ODBC:'.$DSN, $UID, $PWD, {PrintError => 0,Rais
+eError => 1,LongReadLen => 65536});
...
$FetchPagesWithUpdatedTranslations = $db->prepare('exec FetchPagesWith
+UpdatedTranslations ?, ?'); # product_id, time
...
my $res = $FetchPagesWithUpdatedTranslations->execute( $prodId, SQLtim
+e($FILES{':'.$section}));
...
sub SQLtime {
    my $time = shift() || 0;
    my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)
        = localtime($time);
    $year+=1900;
    $mon++;
    return "$year-$mon-$mday $hour:$min:$sec";
}

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The stored procedure is like this: 
CREATE PROCEDURE FetchPagesWithUpdatedTranslations (
    @ProductId Int,
    @Date datetime = NULL
) AS
...

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This code works fine with Perl 5.6.1. (ActiveState build 631), but reports
DBD::ODBC::st execute failed: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Inval
+id character value for cast specification (SQL-22018)(DBD: st_execute
+/SQLExecute err=-1) at ...

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with Perl 5.8 (ActiveState build 804). Both running under Win2k server with MS SQL 2000.

I tried it with DBI 1.30 (from PPM) and DBI 1.32 (compiled by myself) and with DBD::ODBC 0.43 (from PPM), 1.02 and 1.04 (compiled by myself) and it crashed every time.

I also tried to change the stored procedure to 

CREATE PROCEDURE FetchPagesWithUpdatedTranslations (
    @ProductId Int,
    @DateS varchar(20) = NULL
) AS
...

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and that worked with both 5.6.1 and 5.8. Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? In this case I can change the stored procedure, but in the future this could be a problem.

Thanks, Jenda

In reply to Passing dates to MS SQL via DBD::ODBC doesn't work under 5.8 by Jenda

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