On fös, 2007-03-30 at 00:31 -0700, filippo wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange problem with stored queries like this > > $sql = qq/ > SELECT city, country > FROM countries > WHERE city LIKE ? > ORDER BY city > /; > $sthCity= $dbh->prepare($sql); > my $tempCity = $dbh->quote("n%"); > $sthCity->execute($tempCity); > the query doesn't return any value. It works only if I remove the - > >quote(). you do not have to use quote() on the parameters of a prepared statement, as this is already done for you. gnari