I think your first comment is the culperate. You should only get this error if your $dbh variable is not defined in-line within the application.

If the handle is disconnected, the variable should still be defined. Although will recieve another DBI specific error such as "DBI: Cannot selectrow_hashref from a disconnected database handle" (I really don't know the specific error off hand), you should not expect to see the Perl error.

However, for future reference, and a little off-topic, if you think there might be a chance you are running into an area where your database handle might be disconnected, you can always test against the boolean handle attribute 'Active' and reconnect. For example: 
unless ( $dbh->{'Active'} ) {
  # Some re-connection magic here
}

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In reply to Re^2: DBI returning error on selectrow_hashref by wazzuteke
in thread DBI returning error on selectrow_hashref by bradcathey

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