No, you are not storing a reference to a hash, but a ref to a ref to a hash.

Of course, what was I thinking? I didn't even realize what I was doing until I read and reread this line a second time. DBI was returning a reference and I didn't even blink before stuffing a ref to a ref into my hash value. repson, I bow before you with humility and respect.

In the interest of learning, however, how would I dereference the ref to a ref that I embedded into that hash?

ryddler