Are we reading the same thing? What other issues do you see in

So I should use this then?

my $sth_b = $dbh_b->prepare($sql_b, { RaiseError => 0 });
   $sth_b->execute() or die "$!\n";
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Or are you talking about the OP? Not interested. I tried to help him the first time he posted this question, and it didn't work out well.