#! perl -w scipt use strict; use warnings; use DBI; use DBD::ODBC; my ($data_source, $database, $user_id, $password) = qw( Series_requests ********* ********* ); my $conn_string = "driver={SQL Server}; Server=$data_source; Database=$database; Trusted_Connection=yes"; my $dbh = DBI->connect( "DBI:ODBC:$conn_string" ) or die $DBI::errstr;