in reply to perl DBI question

I think the problem is that DECIMAL is a keyword in MySQL. Here is a link that explains it better than I can.

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Re^2: perl DBI question
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 22, 2004 at 13:35 UTC
    D'oh!

    you're exactly right, I changed the name of the field and everything worked fine.
    Valuable lesson learned, and thanks for the swift response
    Jonathan
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      Single quoting the field names in the field list ala ('DECIMAL','SOANDSO','BLAHABLAH') might work as well.
      Grygonos
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