Hi monks! I'm very new to perl. In fact the only coding i have done is a basic VB using Mapbasic as I'm in GIS. I'm trying to edit a script which someone left behind and I am really stuck here. I realised after a few stupid minutes that my edit in which I've added 2 SQL updates cant be done and it can only prepare 1 statement which i believe is the last one, so how can I loop the code below to run both sql updates? Many many thanks!

Gareth

I have posted my sub routine below: 

sub create_temp_tables($$)

{    # Create copies of sp047 and sp057 for updating
    my ($dbh, $dbms) = (@_);

    my $sql;
        
    if ($dbms eq 'ORACLE')
    {
        $sql =        q{create table sp047_postcodes_temp as select * 
+from sp047_postcodes};
        $sql =        q{create table sp057_regions_temp as select * fr
+om sp057_regions};
    }
    else # SQLServer
    {
        $sql =        q{select * into sp047_postcodes_temp from sp047_
+postcodes};
        $sql =        q{select * into sp057_regions_temp from sp057_re
+gions};
    }

    $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);

    if ($sth)
    {
        my $rc = $sth->execute();

        if ($sth->err)
        {
            myexit($sth->errstr, $dbh);
        }
      else
        {
            # Need to commit to release locks in SQL Server - we have 
+done nothing else at this stage,
            # so no problem with this.
            $dbh->commit;
        }

        $sth->finish;
    }
    else
    {
        myexit("Unable to prepare SQL : " . $sql . "\n", $dbh);
    }
    
}

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