UPDATE 2:

I should add for completeness that I do have a 64-bit version of strawberry perl on this system, and I can't recally, but I *might* have been using that to test my code inadvertently, not the 32-bit perl like originally posted. I didn't realize that it was ambiguous until I remembered the dev strawberry install, so sorry for that confusion.

To be clear, both 32-bit and 64-bit now work fine, but I can't vouch for which way I was testing it for the results of my original post. Apologies.

UPDATED:

After reading a bit more carefully, and reading the links, I think I understand the post, but am still confused by the behavior of the system. If I'm understanding correctly, my perl install is 32-bit, so I'd think I'd have to use 32-bit drivers, which would have been registered in %WINDIR%\SysWow64\odbcad32.exe . But the opposite was true -- it didn't work until I registered them in the 64-bit app (%windir%\system32\odbcad32.exe).

Likewise, my R install is 64-bit, but I used the 32-bit drivers (registered in %WINDIR%\SysWow64\odbcad32.exe).

Either I'm fundamentally NOT getting this (likely), or this is seriously weird.

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Wow, thank you very much! That helped a ton! A good explanation of a very confusing situation...

Matt

In reply to Re^2: DBI Module, 32-bit Perl on 64-bit Windows 7: ODBC Connection confusion by mpettis
in thread DBI Module, 32-bit Perl on 64-bit Windows 7: ODBC Connection confusion by mpettis

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