Darn, I meant to include this in my post below. To sort of repeat myself, the Sql call in Win32::ODBC will return either false, for a successful query or an error number if the query fails. You are storing this number in $result and trying to use it as an array reference in your print statement. From your print error message, your sql call is returning the value "1" which I think is an error from the Win32::ODBC module itself. The ODBC statement is actually $dbh->Sql() not $dbh->sql().