Makeshifts last the longest.

Unfortunately Screamer it's a bit more complicated than that. *nix systems do not have a native way to speak TDS (without help from FreeTDS), this is the protocol for Sybase and MS SQLServer. The DBD::Sybase module will talk to older versions of MS SQLServer but more recent versions have deviated from the DBD::Sybase module's version of TDS.

But anyways, this question has been answered as a Q&A and also here.

Anonymous Monk, you can find answers to questions that have been asked before by using the search (available in the bar up top). This will wind up getting you your answer a lot quicker than making a post.



grep

These are not the monks you are looking for, move along

yes, I have connected using DBI from active state, using a DSN that I set up through windows.

Then I am not sure as to what your question is. If you know how to and successfully have connected to the database - what is the "help getting environment set up" you need?

Makeshifts last the longest.

The DBD::Sybase Module already mentioned is very good, too.

Best regards,
perl -le "s==*F=e=>y~\*martinF~stronat~=>s~[^\w]~~g=>chop,print"

Well this is a rough example since you were not real specific as to what you needed but here goes



#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use DBI;

#The database handle

my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:SQL:Example", "username", "password" , {
    RaiseError => 1
});
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