Greetnings all, I'm trying to write a script that, at a base level, performs a backup on a Sybase database. In testing the error modes, I came across a particularly unsettling scenario. Even though I turn on the RaiseError attribute when I connect to the database through DBI, no exception is raised if the backup was unsuccessful. For instance, the following code completes successfully: 
use warnings;
use strict;

use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect(
        "dbi:Sybase:server",
        "sa",
        $ENV{SYBPW},
        {
                ChopBlanks      => 1,
                RaiseError      => 1,
                PrintError      => 1,
        }
);
$dbh->do(
        "dump database non_existant_db to 'non-existant file'"
);

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I could write an error handler and have it look for messages from the server, but was wondering if there was some way to do it automagically.

Thanks in advance,
thor

In reply to DBD::Sybase and dump dataabse by thor

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