Sending more than one SQL statement in a prepare() is in general not supported. Exceptions exist for databases such as Sybase and MS-SQL where multiple statements are supported natively by the server.
However, you could push the actual prepare/execute/fetch loop into a subroutine which would avoid the duplicated code (minimal and simplistic implementation):
my $row1 = fetch_count($dbh, "table_one");
my $row2 = fetch_count($dbh, "table_two");
print "$row1, $row2\n";
sub fetch_count {
my $dbh = shift;
my $table = shift;
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select count(*) from $table");
$sth->execute;
my $row = $sth->fetch_arrayref;
return $row->[0];
}
Michael
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