in reply to Connecting to MS Access

Wow! I tried your code and got the same thing!

DBI connect('TestCasesXP2K','',...) failed: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Ma +nager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified (SQ +L-IM002)(DBD: db_login/SQLConnect err=-1) at C:\Daniel\perl\PerlMonks +\dbitest.pl line 13 Can't call method "prepare" on an undefined value at C:\Daniel\perl\Pe +rlMonks\db itest.pl line 16.

I suspected that I might since I haven't set up an ODBC connection using the ODBC connection manager. If you set up and test your ODBC connection then you should be able to connect OK.