Re: Re: ? embed scalars in the sql

[Mark Bergeron]

That's the beauty of Perl and databases!

-----Original Message-----
From: "Timothy Kimball"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon Jun 25 12:42:19 PDT 2001
Subject: Re: ? embed scalars in the sql

>
>: Is it possible to embed a scalar into the sql such that the value of
>: the scalar could represent a column name to report or a value to
>: select by
>
>Sure. The query's just a scalar string until you execute it.
>
>Same goes for order by, group by, table names, or whatever. Just do
>yourself a favor and trap the errors that come back from the database
>interface (DBI, hopefully).
>
>-- tdk

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