Hello Monks,

I have a question about prepare_cached() statements. The relevant extract from my script runs like this: 

sub get_account_status {
    my ($account_num) = shift;
    my $query = qq { SELECT a.STATUS 
                           FROM account a
                   WHERE a.ACCOUNT_NUMBER = ? };
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare_cached($query);
    $sth->execute($account_num);
    my $status = $sth->fetchrow_array;
    return uc($status);
}

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And when I run this I get this warning: "statement handle still active at <line number of the prepare_cached statement>".

After fetching the result, if I say, 

$sth->finish;

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then the warning vanishes. So I thought that there might be multiple status values for each account number and I might not be fetching all of them. But given the fact that account number is the primary key on this table, this seemed impossible. Also, if I query the table directly, I get only one status value for each account number.

I believe, I am not properly using prepare_cached (and yes, this is the first time I am using it!!).

Any suggestions??

Thanks,

In reply to prepare_cached warning by HarshaHegde

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