I don't understand. How did it mess up?
I've been using DBI with MS SQL Server 7 here for months now, with little in the way of headaches. Hooking up to the server, retriving/editing, etc. all work fine. The only serious problem I can think of involved Memo/OLE Object files, and that's well-documented in the DBD::ODBC docs.
----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.