I'm having an SQL quoting problem, but not quite of the "normal" caliber.

I'm running ActiveState perl 5.6.0 on Windows 2000. I'm using DBD::ODBC to connect to an SQLServer 200 DB on the same host. The problem comes when I want to call a stored procedure and one of the arguments I want to pass to it contains a single quote. I've tried all the ways I know of to get around the escaping problem:

• $dbh->do('exec sp_MyStoredProg @foo=' . $dbh->quote($bar));
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• $bar=~s/'/''/g;
  $dbh->do("exec sp_MyStoredProg \@foo='$bar'");
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• my $sth=$dbh->prepare('exec sp_MyStoredProg @foo=?');
  $sth->execute($bar);
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But whatever I do it doesn't seem to like the escaping of any single quotes in $bar:

DBD::ODBC::st execute failed: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL 
+Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near 's'. (SQL-37000)
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Unclosed quotation mark
+ before the character string '.... (SQL-37000)(DBD: st_execute/SQLExe
+cute err=-1) at testdiff.pl line 113.
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I believe this to be an MS/SQLServer problem, not a DBD::ODBC problem (but I could be wrong). I'm hopeing that someone here will have a good workaround that can get me running.

Thanks, Les

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