Webmaster Forum / Perl / DBI Library / November 2003

When selecting a 'real' column you get a different string value in
Perl from 'select convert(varchar(255), a)' and 'select a':
   $dbh->{AutoCommit} = 1;
   $dbh->do('create table #a (a real not null)');

Mike --
Please apply this patch to the next release of DBD::Sybase.  The
nsql() implementation has a critical flaw in the deadlock retry logic
upon which many of us depend.

How can I make the output of TSQL 'print' statements go to my
script's stdout instead of stderr?
I have set up an error handler
   $dbh->{syb_err_handler} = sub {

May be this is not the right address to send this message to, in that
case on beforehand my excuses....
I tried to run
perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBI' , which succeeded

Hi Tim,
the attached patch adds 'Carp::' to all unqualified
calls to carp() and croak().
You'll get the error message above with something like

DBD::mysql 2.9003 has been uploaded to CPAN.
There are the changes in 2.9003:
2003-10-26  Rudy Lippan  <rlippan@remotelinux.com> (2.9003)
       * Applied patch from Aaron and Chuck that added basic testing of