Thanks, you're right, I was just hoping there'd be an easier way to do it from Perl itself, if you see what I mean? Having to open Access every time is a pain (esp. as I'm not very familiar with it). Looks like that's the only error message I'll get from Perl though.

I tried writing the query into Access normally and it changes it into something bizarre:

INSERT INTO tblCustomer ( LastName, BranchID, FirstName, Premise, Street, District, Town, County, PostCode ) SELECT 'a' AS Expr1, 'b' AS Expr2, 'c' AS Expr3, 'd' AS Expr4, 'e' AS Expr5, 'f' AS Expr6, 'g' AS Expr7, 'h' AS Expr8, 'i' AS Expr9;

The select thing seems slightly ridiculous. I wonder if that's just because the way the GUI works or whether Access databases themselves don't understand Values().

But anyway, that works. Thanks for your help.

In reply to Re^2: DBI SQL error messages by rjberry
in thread DBI SQL error messages by rjberry

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