Thanks for your help, I am still very confused and appreciate all your advice and help.

This is the entire mysql statement that runs without error but pulls records back that it shouldn't. 

    my $data = qq(SELECT engine, name1, name2, name3, name4, lable1, l
+able2, lable3, lable4, settings1, settings2,
                  settings3, settings4 FROM special_fields WHERE engin
+e IN (".join(",",map($dbh->quote($_), @choices)).") AND 
                  settings1="public" OR settings2="public" OR settings
+3="public" OR settings4="public");
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($data);
    $sth->execute() or die $dbh->errstr;

    my ($engine, $name1, $name2, $name3, $name4, $lable1, $lable2, $la
+ble3, $lable4, $settings1, $settings2,
                  $settings3, $settings4);
    $sth->bind_columns(\$engine, \$name1, \$name2, \$name3, \$name4, \
+$lable1, \$lable2, \$lable3, \$lable4, 
                       \$settings1, \$settings2, \$settings3, \$settin
+gs4);

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It's long code, I apologize, there's like 12 columns in this table which makes it look messy.

The thing really confusing me is the entire JOIN statement, it was code from a previous node on here.

All I'm trying to do is have a variable (@choices) with a few names (engines column) and pull back only the records found in the array. That's why the join() is there and that's why I'm completely lost.

When I wrap ( ) around AND ( ... or ... or ... ) I get 0 results back.

In reply to Re^4: in, ands, ors in query (qq) by Anonymous Monk
in thread in, ands, ors in query by Anonymous Monk

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