Re: How to retrieve how many rows are affected after doing an INSERT statement

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> Is there a way to retriever from $dbh how many rows
> are affected after doing an insert statement, and how
> to present this?

You can grab it directly from the execute, or use the rows() method:

$sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO mytable SELECT * FROM mytable");
$count = $sth->execute();
print "Count is $count\n";
$count = $sth->rows;
print "Count is still $count\n";

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