Mr. Muskrat explained that: 
$db = new Win32::ODBC("$DSN"),

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needed to be: 
$db = new Win32::ODBC("$DSN");

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You've posted the code again with the same error. You could at least fix that bit.

use diagnostics; can be very useful. But if you have many errors it can be a bit overwhelming! I would comment it out while you eliminate the obvious errors. I added use warnings; added my to a few variable declarations and was able to get the thing to compile. Which is a start. Difficult to help you much more because of your data source.

Hope that helps.

Update:

$cgi->p("$dept was received."),

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should be: 
$cgi->p("$dept was received.");

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In reply to Re: Perl CGI and SQL statements by wfsp
in thread Perl CGI and SQL statements by kjg

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