perhaps one of my Connection strings works for you:
sub conn {
    my $dbistring;
    # $dbistring = 'dbi:ADO:Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Sour
+ce=';  # 32bit
    # $dbistring = 'dbi:ADO:Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Sou
+rce='; # 64bit
    $dbistring = 'dbi:ODBC:Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.a
+ccdb)};DBQ=';
    my $dbh = DBI->connect($dbistring . shift) or die "C ", $DBI::errs
+tr;
    return $dbh;
}

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Update: Your error message says that it can't find the database file. You should give the full path name.

Windows can in most cases deal with file paths given with '/' instead of '\' - helps much against leaning toothpick syndrome (and "//server/share/folder/file.accdb" looks much nicer than "\\\\server\\share\folder\file.accdb", anyway). In addition, Path::Tiny helps.

I use it like
use DBI;
use Path::Tiny 'path';
...
my $dbname = path '//server/share/whatever/it is.mdb';
$dbh = conn $dbname->canonpath;
...

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In reply to Re: Connection Problem to MS Access Database using DBI by soonix
in thread Connection Problem to MS Access Database using DBI by merrymonk

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