Hi,

I've been trying to connect to a database on an MS SQL server from WinNT running ActivePerl. I've added a system datasource that connects to the DB successfully from ODBC Data Source Admin in the control panel (although it doesn't seem to remember my password).

This is the code I've been using :
use strict;
use Win32::OLE;

my $uid = 'myUID';
my $pwd = 'myPwd';
my $dsn = 'myDSN';

my $conn = new Win32::OLE ('ADODB.Connection');

$conn->Open("DSN=$dsn;UID=$uid;PWD=$pwd;") 
    or die "Cannot connect : " . Win32::OLE::LastError();

$conn->Close;

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And all I get is : 
Cannot connect : 0 at adodb.pl line 12

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Anyone got any ideas?
Andrew

In reply to Connecting to MS SQL using ADODB and ActivePerl by qadwjoh

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