c:\> ppm install DBD-ODBC

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#$winauth is set from the command line to force 'Windows Authentication'
my $auth = $winauth ? 'Trusted_Connection=yes' : "uid=$username;pwd=$password;";
my $DSN = "driver={SQL Server};Server=$server;database=$database;$auth";
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN") || die "Error: $DBI::errstr";