Oh mighty Perl Monks!                                          §           I beseech your wisdom in my troubled past. For you see I have ventured on a noble quest but am lost on my journey. lol                  (I feel this is an excerpt out of the movie "Your Highness" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1240982/ lol)                 anyhow ...                     I am successfully BINDing to my remote Dell KACE1000 with this snippet : 
      #!/usr/perl -w
      use DBI;
      my $database='MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver';
      my $hostname='192.168.1.100'
      my $username= 'R1'; #same for every customer
      my $password= 'box747'; #same for every customer
      my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:DRIVER=$database;SERVER=$hostna
+me;port=3306",$username$password)";

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## heres my syntax confusion; Ive tried many statement approaches ## NONE of which seem to work valid ## this block gives me error confirming record/value traversal ## it is not returning anything; giving me this DBI::errstr error(s) ## bind_columns failed: called with 4 values but 74 are needed 
      my $sql = "SELECT * FROM ORG1.MACHINE"; 
      ## SQL works in MySQL studio where ORG1:db and MACHINE:table
      my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
      $sth->execute(); 
      ## should I be sure to inject (undef)
      
      my ($ID, $NAME, $USER, $MAC); 
      ## Titles correspond to Schema Viewer table names in CAPS
      #BIND results to variables ?
      $sth->bind_columns(undef, \$ID, \$NAME, \$USER, \$MAC);
      ##retrieve / return results
      while( $sth->fetch() ) {
            print "$ID, $NAME, $USER, $MAC\n";
      }
$sth->finish();
$dbh->disconnect();

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## any help is very much appreciated                     ##Below is a screenshot of the returned error on execution                                 http://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2012/08_w33/t596770/ODBCfailederror.png

In reply to Dell KACE lookup script failure by jaaronanderson

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