The error you pasted is caused by the 2nd connect statement (the one using ODBC). It would appear the first one (using dbi:mysql) just works.
Have you checked if $dbh is undef after the first DBI->connect call?

Edit: My bad. The first call was commented :P
The error you're getting now (Datasource not found) is because ODBC requires you to register database-connections with the system.
The connectionstring for ODBC is this: 

$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN", $username, $password, $hr_options
+) or die $DBI::errstr;

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$DSN is the name of the datasource you registered with the system. Under *nix, this is /etc/odbc.ini. I have no idea what file is used in lion.

In reply to Re: Lost over DBI in perl by Neighbour
in thread Lost over DBI in perl by sdyates

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