Re: Trouble automating backup

2001-03-14 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Duncan Hudson wrote: > $sth_backup = $dbh->prepare("BACKUP table ? TO ?"); You cannot embed table names or column names with the placeholder. If you do, that will not be mapped to BACKUP table foo but to BACKUP table 'foo' which will most probably fail. Use p

Trouble automating backup

2001-03-14 Thread Duncan Hudson
Hi, I'm trying to write a Perl script that will automate the backing up of the tables in my database. I'm building an array of the tables in the database, using show tables, and then I step through the array with a foreach loop. I've setup the SQL statement (to do the backup) as follows: $