ar0n, I'm also learning DBI.
Since the die comes after the "DBI->connect" I was wondering whether the DBI needs any special handling to close the database connections?

Or does that get handled in the wash?

I know your code was not intended to be complete. But this looked like a good place to ask for a little clarificaion. I have the Programming with DBI book coming from Amazon. It should be here early next week.

Thanks
Claude