I have lots of code for a project which has sql statements stuck in the code like this ... 
    (my $sql = <<SQLCREATE) =~ s/^\s+//gm;
        CREATE TABLE $table 
    (id INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
     name CHAR(40) NOT NULL,
     address CHAR(40)
     PRIMARY KEY (id)
    )
SQLCREATE
    $sql =~ s/\s+$//gm;

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...and it's gotten very messy. I am playing around with putting all the sql statements in a text file and parsing them in to a hash. After parsing and some double interpolation of $things like $table in the above example I can just say... 
$sth = $dbh->dosql($sqls{CreateNameTable});

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and my code is more manageable.

My goal is to build towards a library of useful and hopefully generic sql statements. I was wondering what other people do within perl to manage lots of sql statements. I imagine one solution would be to put the sql statements in the database and grab them as necessary.

Another question I have is how best to debug them - the debugger gives not very helpful messages like "You have an error in your SQL syntax near ''". Should I be writing and debugging the sql outside of Perl (which makes me nervous) or is there a good perl solution?

thanks, tonyday

In reply to How to manage sql statements by tonyday

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