ODBC adds a lot of overhead, and does not offer all of the features you could use with a native driver. I would always try to connect to the database using a native driver (there are lots of native DBDs on CPAN), then fall back to the fat and slow ODBC. For MS SQL, you are right, ODBC is the way with the least pain, since there is no real native driver. You could also use ADO, which adds even more overhead, or you could try DBD::Sybase plus FreeTDS: MS SQL Server is a fork of Sybase 4.2, and they still share their communication protocol.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^2: sql server database connectivity error by afoken
in thread sql server database connectivity error by Selvakumar

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