I have never used SQL2000 before but found it fairly simple for MySQL. Here are some subroutines that I use to manage an sql database on a webserver.

sub GetDatabases
{
    my @tempdbname;
    my @databases2;
    my @databases = DBI->data_sources("mysql");

    for my $x(0..$#databases)
    {
        @tempdbname = split(/:/,$databases[$x]);
        push @databases2, $tempdbname[$#tempdbname];
    }
    return @databases2;
}


sub GetTables
{
    my $database = shift;
    my @tables2;
    my $datasource = "dbi:mysql:dbname=$database;host=localhost;";

    my $dbh = DBI->connect($datasource,'dbuser','password' ,{PrintErro
+r => 0}) or return @tables2;

    my $statement = "SHOW TABLES";
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($statement);
    my $rc = $sth->execute();
    if($rc ne "0E0")
    {
        my $tables = $sth->fetchall_arrayref;
        for my $xx(0..$#{$tables})
        {
            push @tables2,$tables->[$xx][0];
        }
    }

    return @tables2;
}

sub GetFields
{
    my $database = shift;
    my $table = shift;
    my @fields;
    my $counter = 0;
    my $test;

    my $datasource = "dbi:mysql:dbname=$database;host=localhost;";
    my $dbh = DBI->connect($datasource,'dbuser','password');
    my $statement = "DESCRIBE $table;";
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($statement99);
    my $rc = $sth->execute();

    while($test = $sth->fetchrow_hashref)
    {
        $counter++;
        for my $t(keys %{$test})
        {
            #            field        field info
            $fields[$counter]{$t} = $test->{$t};
        }
    }
    return @fields;
}
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I know it may not be very pretty or efficient but it is effective and simple. I'll leave the implementation up to you.