I have the feeling that you are using the wrong approach.

What about using an array of values and just one SQL statement with placeholders?

my @values = 
    ( 
        [ 1, 2, 3 ],
        [ 4, 5, 6 ],
        [ 7, 8, 9 ],
        [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ]
);

my $sql = "Insert into tableone values(?, ?, ?);

my $loadHandle = $dbh->prepare($sql);

for (@values)
{
    $loadHandle->execute(@$_)  
        or die "Could not execute SQL statement $sql "
            . " with values ( @$_ )... $DBI::errstr\n ";
}

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However, if what you want to do is execute different statements, here's another way:

my @SQL_statements = (
  "create table x(i int)",
  "insert into x values (1)",
  "update x set i = i * 10 "
);

$dbh->begin_work();
for (@SQL_statements)
{
    eval { $dbh->do($_)};
    if ($@)
    {
        $dbh->rollback();
        die "error executing query '$_', $DBI::errstr\n";
    }
}

$dbh->commit();

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In reply to Re: Compound Sql Statement by dbwiz
in thread Compound Sql Statement by Doyle

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