Hi Monks

I'm trying to create a direct connection to a MSSQL database I currently use ODBC but I want to automatically generate databases and dont want to manually add the ODBC connection

I've installed the DBD::Sybase module (I'm using perl for windows). When I run the following code I get and error unable to locate component libct.dll

I've googled for the dll but cant find anyware to download these there is some thing about installing sybase but I dont want to do that because I just want to connect to mssql

#!/usr/local/bin/perl # use DBI; my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Sybase:server=sql01", 'piet', 'pompies', { +PrintError => 0}); die "Unable for connect to server $DBI::errstr" unless $dbh;

Please help because there is clearly somthing I dont understand about this


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