in reply to Perl AND SQL Help

I have found better success with: fetchall_arrayref({}) as suggested by Happy-the-monk, especially if you are expected expecting more rows. Try something like this:
. . . $pointer = $sth -> fetchall_arrayref({}); for my $i (0 .. $#$pointer) { my $num = $pointer->[$i]{'NUM'}; my $name = $pointer->[$i]{'name'}; print "NAME = $name<br />"; }
Suggested reading.

—Brad
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