Hi monks, I am trying to connect to a SQL Server 2008 local db on my computer. i've written a small perl script using the DBI module. I am running Activate State Perl v5.8.8. Here is the code. Note that my server name is "MADDY" and no pw to connect. Note that i also installed the DBI module recently using ppm. 

use DBI;

 $dsn = "MADDY";
 $user = "Maddy17";
 $pw = "";
 $dbh = DBI->connect('$dsn,$user,$pw');
 $sth = $dbh->prepare ("select * from sysobjects where name        = '
+pub_titles' and type = 'P' and uid = USER_ID()");
 $sth->execute();
while ( @row = $sth->fetchrow_aray ) {
    print "@row\n";
    }
 $dbh->disconnect();

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The error it throws at command line is as follows: "Can't connect to data source '$dsn,$user,$pw' because I can't work out what driver to use (it doesnt seem to contain a 'dbi:driver:' prefix and the DBI_DRIVER env var is not set) at data.pl line9"

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