Greetings Thargor,

I am also a newbie, and have needed to to do something very similar many times. Here is the format I usually use.

############################################################
sub getInfo
############################################################
{
my ($dbh, $sth, %data);

$dbh=DBI->connect('DBI:ODBC:my_table', { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit =
+> 0 });
       
$sth = $dbh->prepare( "Select * FROM my_table" );
$sth->execute;
$sth->bind_columns( \( @data{ @{$sth->{NAME_lc} } } ));  #----Saves sp
+eed by binding columns to their values. 
$sth->{'ChopBlanks'} =1;    #----Removes extra spaces from fixed char 
+fields. 
$data{$_} = (defined $data{$_}) ? $data{$_} : '' for keys %data;  #---
+-Changes null values to "" as per jZed to avoid warnings

while ($sth->fetch) {
      
print qq(<TR>\n);
print qq(<TH>$data{col1name}</TH>\n); #use real column names
print qq(<TH>$data{col2name}</TH>\n); 
print qq(<TH>$data{col3name}</TH>\n);
print qq(<TH>$data{col4name}</TH>\n);  
print qq(</TR>\n);
}


$sth->finish();
$dbh->disconnect();  ----Needed to free up system resources.
}
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Hope this also helps.

hok_si_la

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