I am trying to write a script that connects to my SQL 2k server though DBI in perl but I am running into 2 problems that I can not figure out. 1. When connected though DBI:ODBC I can not change the active table unless I issue the following code: 
$sth = $dbh -> prepare (qq~use FFImages~);
$sth -> execute();

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I though there was some way I could do something like this: 
$sth = $dbh -> prepare (qq~use FFImages select * from information_sche
+ma.tables where table_catalog = 'FFImages' and table_type = 'Base Tab
+le'~) or die "Could not prepair";
$sth -> execute() or die "$DBI::errstr";

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But I just get the error: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid cursor state (SQL-24000)(DBD: dbd_describe/SQLNumResultCols err=-1)

2. I want to retrive all the results form an SQL query into a single array but the I only know of @arry = $sth -> fetchrow_array; which only gives me the first row of results. How do I retive all the results into the array?

2006-03-03 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Perl and DBI issues'

In reply to Changing databases in MSSQL and fetching more than one row of results at a time by Eagle_f90

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