I'm trying to connect to an Access database file on my local machine. I did this long ago with an older version of Access with no troubles but I can't seem to get it to work this time.

Here's the code: 
use strict;
use DBI;
use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper);

my $dsn = 'dbi:ODBC:driver=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb,*.accdb);' .
    'dbq=C:\Database2.accdb';
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, '','') or die DBI->errstr();

my $query = "SELECT * FROM Table1 LIMIT 1";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($query);
$sth->execute() or die $sth->errstr();
my $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref();

print Dumper($row);

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But all I get is "Data source name not found and no default driver specified (SQL-IM002)". I google this error and get basically that the file or the driver is wrong. But I've verified I have this driver (I've also tried it as Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb) and the file is definitely there.

Basically I've wasted many hours on this now and I'm hoping someone has a solution!

Thanks in advance

Update

I got it to work using a DSN in the Data Sources console. Still not exactly what I want since reading the docs shows I should be able to do it without a DSN. Good enough for now, but if someone has done it without a DSN, please reply and let me know what I'm doing wrong. Thanks
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In reply to Connect with DBI to Access 2007 by cfreak

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