YES - indeed - that is what makes using perl with Databases so powerful.

Your line needs to change to: 

my $sql = "DECLARE \@log varchar(5) SET \@log=$tim Update dbo.tltime s
+et logtime = \@log";

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Notice that the "@" signs need to be escaped - because "@log" is intended for the SQL server, not perl. perl needs to be told to ignore the @, which you do by expressing it as "\@".

On the other hand, you wan to tell SQL the value contained in the perl "$tim" variable, so you require perl's interpolation for THAT variable, so , use double-quotes.

     Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.        --Alan Perlis

In reply to Re^3: SQL Query error while executing in perl. Is it possible to execute these Scripts?? by NetWallah
in thread SQL Query error while executing in perl. Is it possible to execute these Scripts?? by Sachin_dada

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