Re: DBI, rows, and do

[trammell]

The line(s)

$dbh = DBI->connect(...) || die "DB connect failed: " . $dbh->errstr;

won't print anything useful upon failing to create $dbh, since you can't in this case call a method on an object whose construction failed. You probably want something more like:

$dbh = DBI->connect(...) || die "DB connect failed: ", DBI->errstr;

Update: jZed++!

[jZed]

You're right in general, but in this case yours wouldn't do anything either :-). Since the OP included RaiseError=>1 in the connect statement, the connect, if it fails, will print the errstr and die before it reaches the or part of the statement.