Thanks again, all! I have found the way to make fetchall_arrayref() act as expected - good ol' O'Reilly saves the day. To make fetchall_arrayref() pass a reference to an array of references to hashes (instead of a reference to an array of hashes - very subtle diference, but error prone in this need): merely pass the method a template hash to use internally as an example. i.e.:

    my $arrayref =  $sth->fetchall_arrayref({
        FieldID     =>1,
        Fieldname2  =>1,
        Fieldname3  =>1,
        Fieldname4  =>1,
    });
    $template->param(table1 => $arrayref);

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Update:Or even more simply: 
    my $arrayref =  $sth->fetchall_arrayref({});
    $template->param(table1 => $arrayref);

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This worked exactly as expected and dropped both code size and execution time dramaticly. Not to mention leaving me with HTML::Template's standard HTML file style that my clients can mess with easily without having to learn anything new. No sense re-writing the wheel, when it does what it is supposed to - once i learned HOW it does it. Took a bit of reading the source of the DBI and HTML libs though. Guess I need to really brush up on passing of references for stuff like this.

In reply to The fetchall_answer! by growlf
in thread By ref or by ..well..ref! by growlf

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