Thanks - I'll forward your input to someone else to see if they've thought of it. The programming is still on the testing stage. The code I posted has only been used with a test MSSQL installation on a remote demo server so far.

The idea was to get the basics to work here first, and then take the next step by connecting to the customer's server (with a none default port - not 1433, and with restrictions on which IPs are able to connect. The network part should be in good hands with the customer's network admin. Thanks again!

In reply to Re^2: Connect to remote MSSQL database with DBD-ODBC? by FinnR
in thread Connect to remote MSSQL database with DBD-ODBC? by FinnR

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