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in thread Perl/SQL syntax error

Thanks Morgon. I have done that, but now have a new error msg - I'll sort that one out myself. Data is now being inserted into my table, but there seems to be a formatting problem in the date column. Back to the drawing board. Thanks for all the invaluable advice. I have learned something new today, and I am very happy with that.

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Re^5: Perl/SQL syntax error
by graff (Chancellor) on Jul 04, 2009 at 14:45 UTC
    The standard, default date format for mysql is just "2009-07-04 10:45:23". Make your date string look like that, and you'll do fine.
      Yes I noticed that slight problem. I was using the European time syntax, then realised that SQL used a different format... Thanks for your help