in reply to opening a database file

I don't know if plain DBD::ODBC will work against a SQL Anywhere database, in particular if the database license has expired.

You might want to try DBD::ASAny which is specifically written to access SQL Anywhere databases (though I suspect that the license issue is going to be the real problem here...)

Michael

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Re^2: opening a database file
by grashoper (Monk) on Jan 30, 2008 at 21:28 UTC
    I may have to give up on this one, here is attempt number 2. 
    !/usr/local/bin/perl -w
#

use DBIx::AnyDBD;
use strict;
my $db=DBIx::AnyDBD->connect("dbi:Sybase:$database","dba","sql");
my $database = "FirstAm.bdb";
my $data_source = "DBI:AnyDBD:$database";
my $username = "UID=dba;PWD=sql;ENG="Foc_SageNet";
my $dbh = DBI->connect( $data_source, $username, '' );
or die "Can't connect to $data_source: $dbh->errstr\n";
$dbh->disconnect;
exit(0);

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      Errr.... just posting the code without any results or error messages won't really be any use - we can't guess what is broken.

      However, I'm pretty sure that you can re-download and re-install an eval version of SQL Anywhere, and then open the db file that way.

      Michael

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