When using ODBC I usually use this 
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:ODBC:NAME','user','pass') || die $!;

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Where NAME is the name of the ODBC database. Also, make sure you have an entry for the database in ODBC on each pc you use it on (Start->Settings->Control Panel->ODBC Data Sources and put your entry under the System DSN tab). If you still have problems, post more of your code so we can see what is going on. I also found this in the README.adabas that comes with DBD::ODBC 
I'd be happy to leave this away and use the dsn

    dbi:ODBC:servernode=192.168.1.2;serverdb=MYDB

or something similar, but I didn't get this working. Perhaps someone a
+t SAG can help?

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In reply to Re: Problems connecting to MS SQL 6.5 server by c-era
in thread Problems connecting to MS SQL 6.5 server by Sparkie

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