as for the the different DBI strings, are you using a post 5.8.0 perl? I have suspected that the random hash foo in 5.8.1 (or whenever it was added, I forget) would muck up Apache::DBI's caching mechanism.
No, the hash keys are sorted.
- Perrin
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