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In this statement you create the OLE object, or if that fails, you die with a message UNLESS it did not fail...Read that again... You want to remove the unless $dbh

No! He creates a database connection (or dies), unless he has one already. Thats a fully valid caching technique.
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Re: Re: Re: Need help with MS Access with Perl.......
by holygrail (Scribe) on Jun 28, 2001 at 13:38 UTC
    Still kind of strange when you created $dbh in the statement before this one with my $dbh;...

    --HolyGrail
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      So he has perhaps the two lines swapped ;-)(sub and my)?
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