in reply to How can I talk to an Access database using perl?

You can use DBD::ODBC, which is a database driver for DBI:
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:ODBC:DSN', 'user', 'password');
And, I presume, you just use $dbh just as you would for any other database driver.

Or you could use Win32::ODBC:

my $Data = new Win32::ODBC("MyDSN"); $Data->Sql(SQL);