Oh wizened perl monks... help me! I've been poking around online to see if I can figure out what the error DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_array failed: fetch() without execute(). The first results told me that people had no clue, then I stumbled onto a response to a similar error that had happened here. The solution that time seemed to be simply removing a line of $sth->finish(); but unfortunately that's no help. The other thought is that the DB connection is just dying partway through. The second thing I can't figure out is why I get the DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_array failed: fetch() without execute() twice. ...in any case, any advice that can be offered would be very helpful.

Code Snippet:
if ($DEBUG) { print "Connected. \n";}
#populate names:
if ($DEBUG) { print "Populating names \n";}
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT distinct name FROM storeCategories");
$sth->execute();

my $count = 0;

while (my @names = $sth->fetchrow_array){
if ($DEBUG) { print "inputting $names[0] \n";}
$sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO names (name) VALUES (?)");
$sth->execute($names[0]);
$count++; #THIS IS LINE 27.
}
if ($DEBUG) { print "done with names inserted $count names \n";}

Gives output:
Connected.
Populating names
inputting Sample Kits
DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_array failed: fetch() without execute() at *******.pl line 27.
DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_array failed: fetch() without execute() at *******.pl line 27.

DB returns:
296 rows in set (for that same query).

In reply to I still haven't found any solution to DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_array failed: fetch() without execute() by Furple

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