Hi Monks,

What is the normal way to execute multiple sql queries? Suppose I've an sql query to describe a table and a second one to select all the elements of a table, how do I execute both queries and print out the data?

Here is how I do it:

# Store sql queries in @sqls
push (@sqls, qq{ DESCRIBE $table{'profile'} });
push (@sqls, qq{ SELECT * FROM $table{'profile'} });

html_start();
print qq~<table>\n~;
foreach (@sqls) {
  $sth = $dbh->prepare($_);
  $sth->execute()
  or bail_out("Cannot execute query.");

  while (my @ary = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
    print qq~<tr valign="top">\n~;
      foreach (@ary) {
        print qq~<td>$_</td>\n~ if $_;
      }
    print qq~</tr>\n~;
  }
}
print qq~</table>\n~;
html_end();

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Is that how it's normally done?

Thanks in anticipation :)

20031204 Edit by Corion: Changed title from 'multiple perl-myslq queries...'

In reply to multiple perl-mysql queries... by kiat

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