Greetings, fellow monks

I seek some DBI wisdom.

I am using the following code to extract some data from our MS-SQL database using Perl version 5.8.8: (I've snipped out the irrelevant stuff for clarity and conciseness)

use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;

<snip>

my $dbh=DBI->connect('dbi:ODBC:DSN='.$DSN, $USER, $PSWD) or die "Could
+n't connect to database: ".DBI->errstr; 

my $fieldquery="
            
SELECT
<Snip>

FROM
<Snip>

WHERE
PlanSetup.PlanSetupSer=?
<snip the rest of the where clause>
";

my $sth_fields=$dbh->prepare($fieldquery) or die "Couldn't prepare sta
+tement: " . $dbh->errstr;

<Snip some stuff to get $plansetupser>

$sth_fields->execute($plansetupser) or die "Couldn't execute statement
+: ".$sth_fields->errstr;

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The trouble is, when I try to run this statement, I always get the error message:

 Couldn't execute statement: called with 1 bind variables when 0 are needed at line <snip>

I just don't understand why it says that it doesn't need a bind variable when I have definitely put a question mark in the SQL. I've tried various other things instead of the question mark, like :parameter, but these have the same effect. There's clearly something up with my syntax, but I'm stumped as to what it is...

I hope this is enough to go on, and thanks in advance for any help!

In reply to I seek DBI wisdom concerning bind parameters by campbell

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