Re: UPDATE statements causing me grief!

On Oct 6, 3:04 pm, [email protected] (Eirik Toft) wrote:
> Greetings, been a DBI user for years now working with stuff from
> unixODBC, Oracle, MySQL, etc...etc...
>
> So, the issue I'm having is with a simple update statement to a mysql
> database.
>
> Here's a small snippet of code....
>
> my $MAPSQL="UPDATE varmaptest SET value=? WHERE grpid=(SELECT id FROM
> machinegroups WHERE name=?) AND varid=(SELECT id FROM variables WHERE
> name=?)";
>
> my $DBUSER="user";
> my $DBPASS="password";
> my $SQLDS="dbi:mysql:database=$CADB;host=databasehost";
>
> my $dbh = DBI->connect($SQLDS,$DBUSER,$DBPASS);
>
> my $sth = $dbh->prepare($MAPSQL);
> unless ($sth->execute("newval","group1.mygroup.mine","varname1")) {
>    warn "Database error: ".$dbh->errstr;
>
> }
>
> So, for some reason, the update never happens, and I get no errors. I
> have enabled SQL tracing and from the output, I get the following
> statement:
>
> UPDATE varmaptest SET value='newval' WHERE grpid=(SELECT id FROM
> machinegroups WHERE name='group1.mygroup.mine') AND varid=(SELECT id
> FROM variables WHERE name='varname1');
>
> Now, if I actually run the mysql client, and paste this statement into
> it and execute it, it works perfectly.
>
> I'm using perl 5.10.1, mysql database version 5.1.49, DBI version
> 1.612.
>
> On a side note, because I know someone is going to ask, I use the same
> database handle ($dbh) on other SELECT statements and they all return
> data fine (so it's not a database connectivity issue).
>
> Does anyone have any ideas, or at least can give me a good kick in the
> head as to where I should look next?
>
> Thanks in advance;
>
> Eirik..

Thanks to everyone's help, finally after setting the appropriate trace
levels, I discovered that despite my best effort to eliminate them
(DOS versus UNIX), I had a rouge carriage return stuck in one of the
variables.

Thanks for everyone's help - I knew it was something stupid.  Thanks
to those who pointed me to the right trace settings to discover the
issue!

Eirik..