Hi Xantos, I've made the two options available upon EasyDBI->spawn

 POE::Component::EasyDBI->spawn( 
        alias       => 'EasyDBI',
        dsn         => "DBI:mysql:database=$mysql_database;host=$mysql
+_host;port=3306",
        username    => "$mysql_username",
        password    => "$mysql_password",
        options     => {
            max_retries => -1,
            no_connect_failures => 1,
        },
    );
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But However, when I do this:

POE::Session->create(
          inline_states => {
                _start => sub {
                  
                  print "DEBUG: SQL QUERY START\n";
                    
                    $_[KERNEL]->post( 'EasyDBI',
                        insert => {
                            sql => "INSERT INTO camincoming (site_id,c
+am_id,eventtime,filestamp,filename) VALUES (?,?,current_timestamp,?,?
+);",
                            
                            placeholders => [ $input->{site}, $input->
+{dir}, $mysqldate, $input->{filename} ],
                            event => 'result_handler',

                        }
                    
                    );
                }, 
                
                result_handler => sub {
                  print Dumper($_[ARG0]);
                }
          }
          );
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Then I start my script which works fine. After I break the connection to MySQL by stopping the mysql. I get the following through result_handler

$VAR1 = {
          'sql' => 'INSERT INTO camincoming (site_id,cam_id,eventtime,
+filestamp,
filename) VALUES (?,?,current_timestamp,?,?);',
          'session' => 5,
          'error' => 'POE::Component::EasyDBI was shut down forcibly!'
+,
          'action' => 'insert',
          'id' => 0,
          'event' => 'result_handler',
          'placeholders' => [
                              '24',
                              '1',
                              '2009-01-20 18:14:40',
                              'videotrg20090120181644_0.jpg'
                            ]
        };
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after this ... if I start back MySQL ... further nothing happens. I think because the spawned EasyDBI is no longer there. Can you please advice, what I am doing wrong. Thank you very much for your support.