in reply to Software error: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Field 'name' doesn't have a default value
You are only specifying a value for field active not field name. The latter doesn't have a default value so the database rightly complains. Either specify a value for name in your SQL or alter the table definition in your DB to give name a default value.
Note that this isn't a Perl problem. You would get the same response whatever DB client you used with the same query.
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