So its here right? 
   LogIt( $fhDEBUG, "Opening ADODB connection") if $CONFIG{DEBUG} > 3;

   $conn->Open(<<EOF);
$DSN
EOF

   LogIt( $fhDEBUG, "COMPLETE: Opening ADODB connection") if $CONFIG{D
+EBUG} > 3;

   #

   my $sql =<<SQL;
   SELECT $cols
   FROM   $table
   WHERE  $criteria
SQL


   map { LogIt( $fhDEBUG, $_ )} split /\n/, $sql  if $CONFIG{DEBUG} > 
+3;
   my $rs = $conn->Execute($sql);
   LogIt( $fhDEBUG, "COMPLETE: executing SQL") if $CONFIG{DEBUG} > 3;

   if( !defined( $rs ) ){
      LogIt( $fhDEBUG,"something went wrong: ", Win32::OLE->LastError(
+));
      LogIt( $fhERROR, "something went wrong: ", Win32::OLE->LastError
+());
      die "<lookup> died something went wrong: ", Win32::OLE->LastErro
+r(),"\n";
   }

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and it fails for CSS DB right? You never check if     $conn->Open($DSN); succeeded, so when it fails for CSS DB, you try to Execute , but you can't because it failed( probably account permissions). See http://www.xav.com/perl/Windows/windows_script_components.html 
     if($conn->{State} == adStateOpen) {
     $status = "Connection was a success";
     }
     else {
     $status = "Connection failed because ";
     $status .= $conn->Errors(0)->{Description};
     }

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In reply to Re: OLE exception from ADODB.Connection by Anonymous Monk
in thread OLE exception from ADODB.Connection by Mych

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