Dear monks,

I'm trying to connect to a remote MS SQL Server from within a Perl script running on my Win2K PC (ActiveState, perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread). I've set up both user and system DSN (Data Source Name) pointing to that server. I also checked the connection, and in addition I fired up MS Access and was able to see the remote DB using that DSN. However I cannot make Perl connect to DB.

Here is my primitive code: 
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::ODBC;

my $db;
my $DSN = "DSN:IBUeMBA_DSN;UID=sa;PWD=xxxx";

if (!($db = new Win32::ODBC($DSN))) {
    print "Error connecting to $DSN\n";
    print "Error: " . Win32::ODBC::Error() . "\n";
    exit;
}

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When I run the programme above I receive the following error: 
Error connecting to DSN:IBUeMBA_DSN;UID=sa;PWD=xxxx
Error: [911]  "[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not f
+ound and  no default driver specified"

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I cannot understand why it doesn't find the DSN. Any ideas? I'm simply stuck at this point.

In reply to Help needed for Win32::ODBC by YAFZ

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