Your TYPE or mine?
 
 
- Sometimes the data type needs to be specified
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use DBI qw(:sql_types);
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- to import the type constants
 $sth->bind_param(1, $value, { TYPE => SQL_INTEGER });- 
- to specify the INTEGER type
- which can be abbreviated to:
 $sth->bind_param(1, $value, SQL_INTEGER);
 
 
- To just distinguish numeric versus string types, try
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$sth->bind_param(1, $value+0);  # bind as numeric value
 
 $sth->bind_param(1, ”$value”);  # bind as string value- 
- Works because perl values generally know if they are strings or numbers. So...
- Generally the +0 or ”” isn’t needed because $value has the right ‘perl type’ already