Fellow Monks,

I have some really basic DB statement stuff:

    my $dbh = DBI->connect( 'DBI:ODBC:ALIAS', $username, $password);
    my $stmt = $dbh->prepare('SELECT * FROM SCHEMA.TABLE');
    $stmt->execute();
    ...

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I want to be able to generate the DDL (CREATE TABLE ...) that could hold the returned rows.

I realise there are some deeper issues that could crop up, but I'm really hoping there is a solution based on the DBIs structs:

    my $type_ref =  $stmt->{TYPE};
    my $precision_ref =  $stmt->{PRECISION};
    my $scale_ref =  $stmt->{SCALE};
    my $colnames = $stmt->{NAME};
    my $nullable = $stmt->{NULLABLE};

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I've started looking at SQL::Translator but it seems a bit heavy, and might not support DB2. I'm just a little overwhelmed by the amount of places to look ...

Does someone know of such a snippet or a good starting point? I'm sure I could hand code it, but, if I don't have to that'd be even better. :-)

Regards,
Kurt

PS: Long live the Monastery!!

In reply to CREATE TABLE DDL from DBI Statement by whereiskurt

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