Apologies for the delay, but I was too busy yesterday to respond. I can gleefully admit that the code you provided definitely got me a bit further along, but the error message ever remains the same. The only difference this time is that the "Or die" message included is showing up, but maybe not how I think it should? If that's even a thing.

 my $dsn = "dbi:ODBC:Driver={SqlServer};SERVER=CND4290H26;Database=Gam
+eInfo;
Trusted_Connection=Yes;";

my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn)
    or die "Couldn't connect.";

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As you can see I did modify the code thanks to your inclusion, but the error message is remaining the same. The only inclusion to that, since I ran in debug mode, is: "Uncaught exception from user code: Couldn't connect. at script.pl line 12." That is the connect or die dbh that attempts to call the dsn to connect. The error has to be somewhere in the dsn. Since I'm trying to call it locally, could the error be in the server? Or is it perhaps still an issue with the driver? I apologize for not really getting it, I'm a newcomer with perl.

In reply to Re^4: Database connection issue by Azard
in thread Database connection issue by Azard

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