I'm running MCDE on winXP AS Perl. When I attempt to connect to the database with DBD::ODBC I get the following error: Unable to connect: MicrosoftODBC Driver Manager Invalid string or buffer length (SQL-S1090)(DBD: db_login/SQLConnect err=-1)

here is my code:

use DBI;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );

my $q = new CGI;

print $q->header( -type=>"text/html", -charset=>"UTF-8" ),
      $q->start_html( -title => "myCrap.arg" ),
      $q->p("This is my thing!");

my ( $data_source, $database, $port, $user_id, $password ) = qw( "PIKA
+CHU\NetSDK", "HarvestDay", "127.0.0.1:2433", "HarvestReader", "reader
+" );
my $conn_string = "driver={SQL Server}; Server=$data_source; tcpip=$po
+rt; Database=$database; UID=$user_id; PWD=$password;";

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$conn_string") or die "Unable to conn
+ect: $DBI::errstr\n";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * from harvest") or die "Unable to pre
+pare: $DBI::errstr\n";
$sth->execute;

while ( my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array ) {
    foreach my $item ( @row ) {
        $q->p("$item || ");
    }
}


print $q->end_html;

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I looked through earlier nodes, but none of the solutions provided seemed to help.

Thanks for your assistance

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