Thank you for your reply.

I did try this before and I have run a test of DBI to see if it works. I forgot to emntion this. First here is the output from DOS that I received when doing the above code just to try again. 

C:\Perl>ppm install dbd-mysql
Version 2.1026 of 'DBD-mysql' is already installed.
Remove it, or use 'verify --upgrade DBD-mysql'.

C:\Perl>ppm verify --upgrade DBD-mysql
Package 'DBD-mysql' is up to date.

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This is the extremely simple PERL program I used to test CGI and DBI taken from the so far good book "MySQL and PERL for the Web." 
#! /usr/bin/perl
# intro2.pl - verify availability of CGI.pm and DBI modules
use CGI;
use DBI;
$cgi = new CGI;
print "The CGI object was created sauccesfully.\n";
@driver_names = DBI->available_drivers();
print "These DBI drivers are available: @driver_names\n";
exit(0);

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This runs just fine and dumps the output of all the drivers I am running. 
C:\Apache2\perl_dev>perl intro2.pl
The CGI object was created sauccesfully.
These DBI drivers are available: CSV ExampleP File ODBC Oracle Proxy S
+QLite mysql

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Hopefully this will help to clarify a little bit more.
Again, thank you for all the kind help.

In reply to Re: Re: DBI, Windows and Perl56.dll error by Akira71
in thread DBI, Windows and Perl56.dll error by Akira71

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