Good point. And yes, I fell into the same manner of thinking that you identified in your update. :) Ok, either way, he's not getting a valid statement handle (whether its due to silent failure, or because do() never returns a statement handle in the first place). And that's why when he attempts to use $sth2->fetchrow_array() he's getting the error message. $sth2 will never contain a statement handle, and thus, fetchfow_array() will never be a method of $sth2.