My first thought is that unless you are connecting to more than one DB, you don't need a routine. You leave the connection open until you are done. So any routine should handle some sort of argument for which DB to connect to.

I have a question of style/usage regarding the die clause in the subs... Would we still want to call such a function thusly: 
my $dbh->db_handle($db_name) || die "SNAFU getting to $db_name: $!";
or
my $dbh->db_handle($db_name) || &explain_to_user_that_db_unavailable( 
+$db_name );

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Or something like that? Especially if this is a CGI wouldn't we want to use a function to tell the user to quit hitting refresh until the server is fixed? The die clause still returns a false value for the sub call, right? But this could cause errors if not handled in the main clause, right?

In reply to Re: Re: multiple db connects by ichimunki
in thread multiple db connects by jasmine

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