Hi, I have a strange problem, when i ran my .cgi script on my machine it works flawlessly (athlon 64 3200+) but when i run it on another machine (pentium 4 2.4ghz) with exactly the same database (Access 2000) and exactly the same version of perl (Activestate Activeperl 5.8)and the same operating system (Windows XP Home)i get a weird problem. The problem is in the sql string. This is the code that produces an empty dataset. This format works on my machine and it took me a while to get the parenthises right. 
my $sql="SELECT idNum, (First(price)-Last(price)) AS difference ,Min(d
+ateCreated) AS minDate, Max(dateCreated) AS maxdate, Last(mobile) AS 
+lastMobile, Last(contents) AS lastContents,(( (First(price)-Last(pric
+e)) /First(price) )*100) AS percentChange , Last(price) AS lastPrice,
+ Last(state) AS lastState, Last(contact), Last(year) FROM carAdds GRO
+UP BY idNum HAVING (( Last([year]))>=$yearmodel) ORDER BY (( (First(p
+rice)-Last(price)) /First(price) )*100) DESC";

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When i change (( Last(year))>=$yearmodel) to (( Last(year))=$yearmodel)it works on the pentium machine but obviously its not what i want. In fact in my other searches not presented here i get the same problem with any numerical conditions. Im using dbi and an access 2000 database. Any help would be really appreciated Thanks

In reply to Strange error when .cgi deployed on a different machine by sirius98

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