Placeholders, placeholders, placeholders!

Using placeholders you should be able to do something like this: 

   my $up = qq{
      UPDATE Prior_to_CI_calc_A_.$region
         SET SUM_wi = ?,
             Sum_wixi_x_1000 = ?,
             Sum_wi2xi_x_1000 = ?
       WHERE A.Aggregated_area LIKE ?
         AND A.Cause LIKE ?
   };
   ### Do print here to see what $up contains ###
   print STDERR "\$up=$up\n";
   my $sth = $dbh->prepare($up);
   $sth->execute($SUM_Weight_wi,
                 $SUM_wixi_x_1000,
                 $SUM_wi2xi_x_1000_fill,
                 $Aggregated_area_fill,
                 $Cause_fill);

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I'm not entirely sure if you can use placeholders in the WHERE like I've shown here. Also I haven't used any error trapping here, and you definitely should - read about RaiseError and PrintError.

You can also use '$dbh->trace(2);' to see what sql is being sent to the database. You should definitely read the excellent DBI perldocs if you haven't already - by doing 

   perldoc DBI

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at a command prompt.

HTH.

In reply to Re: SQL Update Error by hmerrill
in thread SQL Update Error by Win

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