I've worked with DBI and ODBC
DBI is not an standard module, and you can work with ODBC without installing any module.
ODBC is faster making a connection (with SQL Server) than DBI.
In DBI is easy to get the ID of the record that you insert with 'insert into...', it's only necessary one sentence; in ODBC I have to execute two sentences
Try a supersearch for more information
Hope this helps Hopes
Of course Win32::ODBC is only standard with Activestate.
DBI, while not core either, does run on multiple
platforms and doesn't lock you in to running on Wintendo.
If you write to DBI you can fairly easily (for some
values of easily) move to a different platform without
rewriting.