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Just drop the TOP 1 from the SQL. I added that to prevent the DB from selecting all records and doing to much work. However, having the $sth->finish call at the end should minimize the overhead by merely finishing up the statement handle without fetching the subsequent rows.

Of course, Oracle should support some form of the TOP syntax, but I don't know Oracle.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re(3): How do you get Perl::DBI to do a desc table_name? by Ovid
in thread How do you get Perl::DBI to do a desc table_name? by kleinbiker7

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