I frequently connect to multiple different types of databases at the same time in perl with DBI, DBD::ODBC, DBD::SQLite, DBD::Oracle, and friends. If you're having trouble, then you're doing something wrong.

I find it difficult to believe that you didn't:

• Give the exact error message
• Show your connect strings
• Give a small example of the code that's failing

If we had that information we could do something other than tell you that "Yep, you've got a problem. Good luck with that."

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.