Hello oh great Monks

I am trying to get information out of a MS-SQL 2000 DB. I was able to connect to the database until I changed my script to accept inputs for server, user and password.

I am obviously not using it correctly, but I have gotten hopelessly confussed reading the help and looking at SoPW.

I tried using Dumper to see what the hash holding the input had in and all it shows is:
 $VAR1 = '1';<BR>
$VAR2 = undef;

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I'm sure I messed up something. Any help would be great.

use strict;
use DBI;
use Data::Dumper;
use Getopt::Long qw (GetOptions);

my $help = "0";
my $server = "0";
my $user = "0";
my $password = "0";

#Set the options for GetOpt
Getopt::Long::Configure( "pass_through", "no_ignore_case", "prefix_pat
+tern=(-|\/)" );

#What to expect on the command line
my %opts = ();
my %opts=(GetOptions(
           'help|?'     => \$help,
           'server'     => \$server,
           'user'     => \$user,
           'password'     => \$password
          ));
print Dumper(%opts); #DEBUG: See what's there
          
if($opts{help}) {
    &Help;
}

my $mytime=(time);
my $database="TNGDB";

#Start Logging to log file..
open (LOGF, ">>%0../../$mytime.log") || die "Could not open the Log Fi
+le: $!\n";

#Connect to MSSQL Server
my $dsn="driver={SQL Server};Server=$server;database=$database;UID=$us
+er;PWD=$password;";
my $dbh=DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$dsn", $user, $password) || die &Logger
+("...Unable to connect. Reason: $DBI::errstr");
&Logger ("...Success: connected to database $server\\$database\n");

#Get Data
#Insert the select statements here....

$sth->finish();
$dbh->disconnect();




########################################
##            SUBS                    ##
########################################

# Message Logging 
sub Logger {
    my $text = shift;
    my $rc = 0;
    if (print LOGF "$text\n") {
        $rc=1;
    }
    return ($rc);
}

#CLI Help
sub Help {
    print "Invalid option.\n","The valid options are: \n";
    print "MakeCVM.exe -h (or ? or help) displays this.\n";
    print "MakeCVM.exe -server=<Server> -user=<SQL User> -password=<Pa
+ssword>";
}

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The error I get running this is:
DBI connect('driver={SQL Server};Server=0;database=TNGDB;UID=0;PWD=0;'
+,'0',...)
failed:  at E:\MakeCVM\makeCVM-SQL.pl line 41
1 at E:\MakeCVM\makeCVM-SQL.pl line 41.

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Thank you in advance oh Great and wonderous Monks!!

In reply to Battling Getopt::Long by Smaug

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