In addition to the other suggestions here, you might wrap your DBI calls in an eval {} block, check for errors and then print out a helpful message to the browser if a message is found. Also, you should print out your http header before you do anything else to make this possible. 

 # I assume that this routine prints out the http header
 &header("We are done");
 $query = "SELECT nw_ucountry FROM $Table";
 $query .= " WHERE nw_ucountry LIKE '$country'";

 my ($sth);
 eval { 
  $sth = $dbh->prepare($query);
  $sth->execute;
 };
 if ( $@ ) {
   print "<p>Error found executing SQL.\n",
         "<pre>$query\nError: $@</pre>";
 }
 else {
   while (($qcountry) = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
    ...
   }
 }

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It also helps greatly if you can keep an eye on your web server's error logs. Messages output from a die (either explicitly or implicitly using the RaiseError attribute) should appear there and would be much more helpful than the message that appears to the browser.

Chris

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In reply to RE: MySQL and PERL tribulations.... by lachoy
in thread MySQL and PERL tribulations.... by bman

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