I have a process that queries an oracle database, many times the query contains some mathematical functions. At times we get the dreaded ORA-01476: divisor is equal to zero error which haults processing.

I am trying capture the rowid of the record that is causing this error for review. What I have come up with seems to only give me the rowid of the last successful record. (By the way, I am writing the output of the query to a flat file, so there is a little bit of code in here to print all of the columns except the rowid.)

I have a command line switch that allows the user to request the rowid, otherwise it just runs the supplied sql statement. 
    while ((@cols)=$sth->fetchrow_array){
        if ($row_id) {
            $cur_rowid=$cols[0];
            
            @cols=(@cols[1..$col_cnt]);
            print OFILE join "$delimiter" => (@cols),"\n";    
        }
        else {
            print OFILE join "$delimiter" => (@cols),"\n";
        }

    }  #end while

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Does anyone know how I can capture the specifics of the row that is actually failing? Based on the behavior, it appears as though the behavior is that the array @cols isn't populated when the error occurs. Regards

In reply to get rowid for failed records using dbi by ctaustin

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