Thanks, and I also found Changes to DBI which tells me that version 1.54 (two ahead of what I currently have) introduces DBD::Gofer.

And having just read all about DBD::Gofer, I'm impressed -- it packages up the connect, the prepare, the bind and the execute statements into a single lump, which is brilliant. The bind, of course, means there's no fetch method necessary. More brilliance.

Very nice.