I am trying to connect to access and retrieve some information out of the database. But the problem is that I cannot get connected to the Database. I just dl the newest version of perl and installed DBI and DBD-ODBC. I believe I installed the correct drivers but I am receiving this error. 
(DBI connect('dbName",'',...) failed:
[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager]
Data source name not found and no default driver specified
(SQL-IM002)(DBD: db_login/SQLConnect err=-1)
at Filename.plx line 5
Can't call method "prepare" on an undefined value at Filename.plx line
+ 8.

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These are the errors I am getting. The code is as follows: 
#Windows-based Perl/DBI/MS Access example
use DBI;

 #open connection to Access database
 $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:ODBC:TestCasesXP2K','','');

 #prepare and execute SQL statement
 $sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT * FROM [TestCasesOutput]');
 $sth->execute || 
       die "Could not execute SQL statement ... maybe invalid?";
print "Error 4\n";
 #output database results
 while (@row=$sth->fetchrow_array)
  { print "@row\n" }

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