Ok, I have IIS running on my local machine and I know it works, I have sql server running on a remote machine and I know it works, put when I bring them together with perl I get nothing please help.

This Works 
<html>
<head>
<title>test page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!!!</h1>
</body>
</html>

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And This Works 
#!/usr/bin/perl
# dbtest.pl
use warnings;
use strict;
use DBI;

my ($CDS, $UPDATE, $name, $type, $len, $sqlquery);

$CDS=DBI->connect('DBI:ODBC:claudonntUPDATE', 'xxxx', 'xxxx') ||
    die "error opening database: $DBI::errstr\n";


# sql query *******************************************
$sqlquery=$CDS->prepare("
                       SELECT catid, description, count (*) 
            FROM cds_prod, cds_cctxx
            WHERE catid = id
            GROUP BY catid, description
            ORDER BY catid;")  
            || die "Prepare failed: $DBI::errstr\n";

$sqlquery->execute() 
|| die "couldn't execute query: $DBI::errstr\n";

while (($name, $type, $len) = $sqlquery->fetchrow_array) {
    print "$name","\t","$type", "\t","$len\n";
}
$sqlquery ->finish();        
$CDS->disconnect || die "failed to disconnect\n";

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BUT THIS DOSEN'T - it is being called as http://localhost/scripts/dbtestonline.pl - I think it is failing at $CDS=DBI->connect... but I don't know why 
#!/usr/bin/perl
# dbtest.pl
use warnings;
use strict;
use DBI;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

my ($CDS, $UPDATE, $name, $type, $len, $sqlquery);
print "    <html>
    <head>
    <title>dbtest </title>
    </head>
    <body>";

$CDS=DBI->connect('DBI:ODBC:claudonntUPDATE', 'xxx', 'xxx') ||
    die "error opening database: $DBI::errstr\n";


# sql query *******************************************
$sqlquery=$CDS->prepare("
                       SELECT catid, description, count (*) 
            FROM cds_prod, cds_cctxx 
            WHERE catid = id     
            GROUP BY catid, description 
            ORDER BY catid;")  
            || die "Prepare failed: $DBI::errstr\n";
$sqlquery->execute() 
|| die "couldn't execute query: $DBI::errstr\n";

print "<center><table Border=1>";
while (($name, $type, $len) = $sqlquery->fetchrow_array) {
    print "<tr><td>$name</td>
        <tr>$type</td>
        <tr>$len</td></tr>";
}
print "</table></center></body><html>";
    
$sqlquery ->finish();        
$CDS->disconnect || die "failed to disconnect\n";

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In reply to perl, IIS, and sql Server help by esolm

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