Tim Bunce wrote: >>>DBI.xs:1664: croak("Can't get %s->{%s}: unrecognised >>>attribute",neatsvpv(h,0),key);
>It's a driver bug. The FETCH of the sth NAME attribute should never >reach the DBI's code. The driver should handle it. So you're saying that $sth->{NAME} should always be handled by the driver, whether or not the column names are available, and that it is the driver's responsibility to print a message such as 'you should call execute() first' rather than leaving it to DBI to raise an error. In that case, this looks like a bug report for DBD::Sybase. I imagine that the other statement attributes NUM_OF_FIELDS should behave in the same way. -- Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>