sybperl-l Archive

From: Tunc Beyhan <tbeyhan at bline dot net dot tr>
Subject: Re: Insert Record
Date: Jan 28 1998 7:28AM

The insert statement should be
$dbh->dbcmd("insert myTable
 values (23561, 2020, 0, 'Some text', 0, NULL, 1, 26643, 1102, 'Why
 me?',
 'Feb 4 1998 3:55PM', 'MDB', 'Hello', 0)");
You should use single qoutes for dates and strings and nothing for NULL 

Hope this helps,
Tunc

Rob Truban wrote:
> 
> Greeting All,
> 
> Could someone please post an example of how to do an insert command.  I
> tried something like this
> with no luck.
> 
> #!/apps/perl/perl5/perl
> 
> use Sybase::DBlib;
> 
> use Getopt::Long;
> 
> $dbh = new Sybase::DBlib $User, $Password, $server;
> 
> $dbh->dbcmd("insert myTable
> values (23561, 2020, 0, "Some text", 0, "NULL", 1, 26643, 1102, "Why
> me?",
> "Feb 4 1998 3:55PM", "MDB", "Hello", 0)");
> 
> $dbh->dbsqlexec;
> 
> $dbh->dbresults;
> 
> I know this is beginner's stuff, I apologize...  I just want to insert a
> record on the fly, nothing  fancy.
> 
> Thanks In Advance
> 
> Rob Truban