I am using a Perl script to let people vote on there favorite images. In this script I connect to a DB and want to check to see if the file name of the image is already there or not, if it not there that would make this the first vote and then I would add it into the DB. Unfortunately I am a novice with T-SQL and Perl and can not figure out a way to check to see if my select statement (ran by perl) pulls results or not, I was also thinking that I might just pull all the names in the DB and use Perl's if control structure to go though the names and compare, but since that could get to be a lot of names I am not sure that is the best way. The code I have so fare is: 
$filename = param('name');
$rating = param('rating');
$dbh = DBI -> connect ('dbi:ODBC:', '', '') or die "$DBI::errstr;";
$sth = $dbh -> prepare (qq~select One, Two, Three, Four, Five from Fan
+Ratings where Title = '$filename'~) or die "$DBI::errstr;";
$sth -> execute or die "$DBI::errstr;";

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Any help you can give is appreciated.

In reply to Check for null results by Eagle_f90

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