Trying to work with a database on remote machines can be a pain sometimes...
This script will dump SP_HELP to the web browser, and allow the user to select one or more tables. Selected tables will then have their structure shown.

use strict;
use DBI;
use CGI qw(:all);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
$|++;
print header ();
print start_html;
my $db_username="user";
my $db_password="password";
my $db_serverstring="DBI:Driver:here";
my $dbh = DBI->connect ($db_serverstring, $db_username, $db_password) 
+|| die ("Cannot connect to database -- DBI reports ", $DBI::errstr);







print "\n";
if (param("view")) {
    h3"<CENTER>Viewing tables</CENTER>";
    my @tables = param("view");
    foreach (@tables) {
        my $sql = $dbh->prepare ("sp_columns $_") || die;;
        my $sth = $sql->execute or die "no ".$DBI::errstr;
        print h3("<CENTER>Viewing table $_</CENTER>"),"<TABLE Border =
+ 1>\n";
        my $THdone;
        while (my $result_ref = $sql->fetchrow_hashref()){
            unless ($THdone) {
                foreach (sort keys %$result_ref) {
                    print "<TH>$_ </TH>";
                }
                $THdone = "yes, indeedy!";
            }
            print "<TR>";
            foreach (sort keys %$result_ref) {
                if (! defined $$result_ref{$_}) {print "<TD><I>undef</
+i></TD>";next}
                print "<TD>$$result_ref{$_}</TD>";
            }
            print "</TR>\n";

        }
        print "</TABLE><BR><BR>";
    }
} else {
    print h2"<CENTER>Viewing sp_help</CENTER>";
    print start_form;
    my $sql = $dbh->prepare ("sp_help") || die;;
    my $sth = $sql->execute or die "no ".$DBI::errstr;
    print "<TABLE Border = 1>\n<TH>Select me!</TH>";
    my $THdone;
    while (my $result_ref = $sql->fetchrow_hashref()){
        unless ($THdone) {
            foreach (sort keys %$result_ref) {
                print "<TH>$_ </TH>";
            }
            $THdone = "yes, indeedy!";
        }
        print "<TR><TD>",checkbox(-name=>"view",-checked=>"", -value=>
+"$$result_ref{Name}"),"</TD>";
        foreach (sort keys %$result_ref) {
            if (! defined $$result_ref{$_}) {print "<TD>--undef--</TD>
+";next}
            print "<TD>$$result_ref{$_}</TD>";
        }
        print "</TR>\n";

    }
    print "</TABLE>";
    print submit;
    print end_form;
}
print end_html;
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