You can also get a hash back for each row, which is handy if you're pulling a lot of fields that you don't want to have to name explicitly in the fetch:

my %page_hits;
while (my $row = $cursor->fetchrow_hashref) {
    $page_hits{$row->{page_title}} = $row->{hit_count};  
}
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The $HASH_REF->{KEY_NAME} syntax is used to access elements via the row hash reference.