When using DBD::ODBC you need to use ODBC Standard SQL. I have used this for accessing diffrent ODBC databases, and i believe the following will work (but it is untested) :

my $query = q!
INSERT INTO logfile ("Date Send","Certificate file")
VALUES ({d '2002-01-01'},'junk')
!;
# other code here
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Sorry, but on my current machine i dont have the ability to test this code :/. Win32 Perl Programming : The Standard Extensions covers some of the ODBC specific SQL stuff.

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