You know what sucks even more, not having sp_help and sp_columns (I found that out, right after I found out there was no DBI on the server, jeez.).

Anyway, please provide us(me), the sp_* less monks with a working version. Since I can't test this, I don't guarantee it, not that I would anyway, but here's a few workarounds.

First off I'd change line

my $sql = $dbh->prepare ("sp_columns $_") || die;;
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to

my $sql = $dbh->prepare ("SHOW COLUMNS FROM $_") || die;
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That should work without question. (note the single ; %^)

And so should this

    my @tables = $dbh->ListTables;

    print "<TABLE Border = 1>\n<TH>Select me!</TH>";
    foreach (@tables)
    {
        print "<TR><TD>",checkbox(-name=>"view",-checked=>"", -value=>
+"$tables[$_]"),"</TD>";

        if(! (defined $tables[$_]) )
        {
            print "<TD>--undef--</TD>";
        }
        else
        {
            print "<TD>$tables[$_]</TD>";
        }
        print "</TR>\n";

    }
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as opposed to

    my $sql = $dbh->prepare ("sp_help") || die;;
    my $sth = $sql->execute or die "no ".$DBI::errstr;
    print "<TABLE Border = 1>\n<TH>Select me!</TH>";
    my $THdone;
    while (my $result_ref = $sql->fetchrow_hashref()){
        unless ($THdone) {
            foreach (sort keys %$result_ref) {
                print "<TH>$_ </TH>";
            }
            $THdone = "yes, indeedy!";
        }
        print "<TR><TD>",checkbox(-name=>"view",-checked=>"", -value=>
+"$$result_r
+ef{Name}"),"</TD>";
        foreach (sort keys %$result_ref) {
            if (! defined $$result_ref{$_}) {print "<TD>--undef--</TD>
+";next}
            print "<TD>$$result_ref{$_}</TD>";
        }
        print "</TR>\n";
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update:
After further examination of your code, I decided to just substitute my $sql = $dbh->prepare ("sp_help") || die; with my $sql = $dbh->prepare ("SHOW TABLES") || die;
But then I noticed yer code did not work as advertised. I ofcourse, knowing I couldn't get my money back, went ahead and "fixed" it. I just moved the "checkbox" statement inside the loop and(once in the loop), inside the if block.

            if (! defined $$result_ref{$_})
            {
                print "<TD>",checkbox(-name=>"view",-checked=>"", -val
+ue=>),"</TD>";
                print "<TD>--undef--</TD>";
                next;
            }

            print "<TD>",checkbox(-name=>"view",-checked=>"", -value=>
+"$$result_ref{$_}"),"</TD>";
            print "<TD>$$result_ref{$_}</TD>";
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You know, I was really suprised by this, especially coming from you boo.
I wonder how many people blindly ++ed your post?

 
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