Thanks for the reply. I updated the original post in this thread accidently, but I will mention it here. It's reporting all of the data back properly, but it is not putting the column headers as the element tags, they are all coming back as <anon> still, which is clear because I am not pushing the @names array into @ordered_values, or the XMLout at all. And since there is like 500 records returned, I wanted to put each record in cdr tags, and surrounded by the dataset root tag. This is how it is running right now. 
my @names          = @{ $sth->{NAME} };
    my @ordered_values = ();
    while ( my $row = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref ) {
        push @ordered_values, [@$row];
    }

    my $cgi = CGI->new;
    print $cgi->header('text/xml');
    print "-- DBI says:\n";
  print XMLout( \@ordered_values, NoAttr=>1, RootName=>'dataset', );

  print "\n";
  print "-- dumper says:\n";
  print Dumper(\@names);
  print Dumper(\@ordered_values);

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This is what it returns. 
<anon>
    <anon>AAAABUcKyqQhEAABI34stA.4515613</anon>
    <anon>989</anon>
    <anon>OQ-OZDN-D-UHMC-UHMC-0939</anon>
    <anon>MQ-MTBO-T-CCDPN-FTQ-1737</anon>
    <anon>9895555555</anon>
    <anon>MI</anon>
  </anon>

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Thank you for your paitence!

In reply to Re^4: DBI hashref does not return data in order of query by hallikpapa
in thread DBI hashref does not return data in order of query by hallikpapa

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