use DBI; use DBD::ODBC; my $DBFile= q(TestLog.mdb); if (-e $DBFile){ print "Using existing database:$DBFile\n"; } my $DSN = "driver=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb);dbq=$DBFile"; my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN", undef,undef) or die "$DBI::errstr\n";