use DBI;                                                     
                                                              
my $data_source = "dbi:Sybase:database=SynergyOne;server=MSSQL";    
my $username = 'sa';                                                
my $auth = '';                                                          
                                                                        
my $dbh = DBI->connect($data_source, $username, $auth) 
or die "no connection: $DBI::errstr";