I'm using DBI version 1.13 on an Oracle 8.1.7 database with Perl version 5.004_02 and I can't get placeholders and bind values to work. There are no error messages, it just doesn't return any rows. The field in the criteria is a VARCHAR2 data type.

This works...
... 

my @accounts = qw{ 118554 118555 118528 118529 118523 };

for ( @accounts ) {
    my $statement = "
        select distinct
            account,
            account_id,
            company,
            the_date
        from account_information
        where account_id = '$_'
    ";

    my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $statement );

    $sth->execute;
    
    while ( my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array ) {
        print join( "\t", @row ) . "\n";
    }
}

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... but this doesn't ... 
my $statement = "
    select distinct
        account,
        account_id,
        company,
        the_date
    from account_information
    where account_id = ?
";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $statement );

my @accounts = qw{ 118554 118555 118528 118529 118523 };

for ( @accounts ) {
    $sth->execute( $_ );
    
    while ( my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array ) {
        print join( "\t", @row ) . "\n";
    }
}

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I have tried setting $sth->bind_param( 1, $_ ) separately, but I didn't have any luck.

Does anyone have any ideas?

In reply to bind not working with DBI? by GhodMode

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