in reply to Dumper with DBI/DBD?

If you're having problems debugging SQL/DBI I'd suggest using Tracing to try and find out where exactly the problem occurs, be it the query, DBI or the database drivers.

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Re^2: Dumper with DBI/DBD?
by kingram (Acolyte) on Jul 30, 2012 at 09:11 UTC
    Thanks.
    That helped.
    DBI was doing it's job. The str_to_date function was being passed as a string instead of a function.
    I've learned quite a bit since I started building this thing.
    45 hours getting right with my Perl skills with a lot of good help from The Monks...
    Cheers!
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      I'm glad this helped, IMHO it's wise to familiarise yourself with debugging tools. An editor which supports Syntax_highlighting would also be advantageous.

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