I have a perl script that connects to a MS SQL 2k8 DB and grabs a random row. The problem I am running into is that right now is that the script sometimes pulls a blank row from the DB, but there are no rows that have blank info. Can anyone help me figure out why this is happening? You can see it live at http://www.ffinfo.com/ It would the the random quote right next to the banner or http://www.ffinfo.com/cgi-bin/rnd-quote.pl 
#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
use strict;
use DBI;
use CGI::Carp qq~fatalsToBrowser~;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my ($DBH, $STH, @Quote, $Statement);
$Statement = qq~select top 1 Quote, CharacterName, GameTitle from dbo.
+GameQuotes order by newid()~;
$DBH = DBI -> connect ('dbi:ODBC:SQLServer', '', '') or die "$DBI::err
+str";
$STH = $DBH -> prepare (qq~select top 1 Quote, CharacterName, GameTitl
+e from dbo.GameQuotes order by newid()~) or die "$DBI::errstr";
$STH -> execute or die "$DBI::errstr";
@Quote = $STH -> fetchrow_array;
print qq~$Quote[0]
<br />--$Quote[1]
<br />$Quote[2]~;
$DBH -> disconnect;

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In reply to Pulling a blank SQL row, but there are no blank rows. by MatthewV

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