Inserting Data From Perl To MysQL - mysql

Question

I have already connected MySQL to the database but the problem is that
I have some problems with inserting Data from Perl to Mysql.
The error that pops out is:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./etl_server_info.pl line 204, (Which is the connection of the database )
DBD::mysql::st execute failed: called with 1 bind variables when 0 are needed at ($stmt->execute($sql);)
sub insert_record(){
my($data,$db_config)=#_;
my $result = -1; # -1 fail; 0 - succ
# connect to db
# connect to MySQL database
my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=".$db_config->{'Top_Data'}.";host=".$db_config->{'127.0.0.1'}.";port=".$db_config->{'3306'};
my $username = $db_config->{'username'};
my $password = $db_config->{'password'};
my %attr = (PrintError=>0,RaiseError=>1 );
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,$username,$password,\%attr) or die $DBI::errstr;
print "We Have Successfully Connected To The Database \n";
# prepare sql statement
# execute insert
my $sql = 'insert into Top(Load_Average, CPU_us, CPU_id, CPU-wa, CPU_hi, CPU_si, CPU_st, Swap_Total, Swap_Free, Swap_Used, Memory_Total, Memeory_Free, Memory_Used, Memory_Buff, Date) values(float,float,float,float,float,float,float,float,varchar,varchar,varchar,varchar,varchar,varchar,date)';
my $stmt =$dbh->prepare($sql) or die "Its A Fail" . $dbh->errstr();
$stmt->execute($sql);
$stmt->finish();
$dbh->disconnect();
$result = 0;
return($result);

Answer 1

Your use of the $db_config variable looks suspicious to me. Either your config hash is strange, or you're using values instead of keys.
You haven't shown us where $db_config is set up, but I'd guess it looks something like this:
$db_config = {
name => 'Top_Data',
host => '127.0.0.1',
port => 3306,
username => 'someone',
password => 'a secret',
};
And then you would use it like this:
my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=".$db_config->{name}.";host=".$db_config->{host}.";port=".$db_config->{port};
Notice that I've used the key names (name, host and port) instead of the values (Top_Data, 127.0.0.1 and 3306).
I'll also point out that you can simplify this slightly by using Perl's ability to expand variables inside a double-quoted string.
my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$db_config->{name};host=$db_config->{host};port=$db_config->{port}";
There's another problem later on, with your SQL statement.
my $sql = 'insert into Top(Load_Average, CPU_us, CPU_id, CPU-wa, CPU_hi,
CPU_si, CPU_st, Swap_Total, Swap_Free, Swap_Used, Memory_Total,
Memeory_Free, Memory_Used, Memory_Buff, Date)
values(float,float,float,float,float,float,float,float,
varchar,varchar,varchar,varchar,varchar,varchar,date)';
The values that you should be inserting are the actual data items. So where you have the strings "float", "varchar" or "date", you should actually have data items (a floating-point number, a string or a date).
Finally, having prepared your statement, you don't need to pass it to the execute() method. You should, however, look at using bind points in your SQL and passing your actual data items to the execute() call