in reply to SQL Database Table to Perl Script

This is really an SQL question. Are you using MySQL? If so, they have some helpful pages online, e.g. HERE for how to construct your queries (though I must say there's a bit of a learning curve to figure out their "help"). Whichever database you're using should be able to do the calculation you need right from the query.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~