On Sybase, just splitting such statements with a new line seemed to work fine. I'm not too familiar with mysql - but unless you would normally use the ';' command terminator when you are running one command - then it looks to me like it won't help with multiple commands.
Here's some sample code for Sybase anyway - hope this might help a little:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use DBI;
use strict;
my $foo=DBI->connect('DBI:Sybase:server=FOO', user, pass)||die "Connec
+tion Failed! $DBI::errstr\n";
my $sql="CREATE TABLE dbo.foo\n(bar int NOT NULL)\nCREATE TABLE dbo.fo
+otoo\n(bar int NOT NULL)";
my $fooexec=$foo->prepare($sql);
$fooexec->execute()||die "SQL failed: $!\n";
$fooexec->finish();
$foo->disconnect();
exit (0);
UPDATE: Thanks bobione - fixed that problem :)
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