I need to open a database file that was written using sybase sql anywhere, I am just stumped on how to go about this. My database driver is running as a service the servername itself is focsage, the driver name is foc_sagenet, username should work with my network username, I have no idea what data this file contains, it was being used for asset management and whoops our free trial expired, the db has been locked out and attempts to open it so far have proven futile. here is my pathetic attempt so far to get this to work. 
use DBI;

# test connect to DB

$server = "focsage";
$username = "medwards";
$password = "password";
#$schema = "User";
$query = "(1 = 1)";

my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:ODBC:$server','$username','$password') || 
+die $!;

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In reply to opening a database file by grashoper

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