++'ed with my last point of the day 'cause I shoulda said dat. Also, check TDS carefully before you use it. It tortured me to the point of exasperation one day. Also, your DBAdmin may not like having to use DBAUTH mode rather than MSAUTH mode. Too bad, MSAUTH mode is still blackbox evil...

--
$you = new YOU;
honk() if $you->love(perl)