Hello Monks, I'm seeking your wisdom. I'm not familiar with DBI but I have a task that I need to accomplish. I'm trying to connect to a database and query a table. Then the output put it into a file with a comma delimiter. I'm passing a variable to the subroutine but it looks like is not querying anything. the code runs without any errors or warnings but It doesn't create an output. Could you take a look at the code and let me know what do I'm doing wrong to modify it and make it work. I will appreciate any suggestions. Thanks in advance. Here is the code: 
#! perl -w

use strict;
use Win32::ODBC;

my $dir = 'K:\\reports';
my $count = 0;


opendir DH, $dir or die "Cannot open $dir: $!";



while (my $file = readdir DH)   {

      next unless $file =~ /\.pdf$/;
      
      my $newfile = substr($file,2,6);

      process_records($newfile);
             
}

closedir DH;

sub process_records {
  
    my ($newfile) = @_;
    my $dbname = 'dbname';
    my $username = 'account';
    my $password = 'password';


my ($db);
 if (!ref($db = new Win32::ODBC("DSN=$dbname;UID=$username;PWD=$passwo
+rd"))) {
   my ($ErrNum, $ErrText, $ErrConn) = Win32::ODBC::Error();
   #...IT FAILED - DO SOMETHING...
   
}

my $sql = "SELECT field1#,field2#,field3#,field4#,field5#,field6,lastn
+ame,firstname
           FROM dbo.table
           WHERE field2# = $newfile";

my ( $yr, $mo, $dy ) = (localtime)[5,4,3];
my $outfile = sprintf( "C:\\Directory\\%04d%02d%02d.txt",$yr+1900,$mo+
+1,$dy );

  open OUT,">$outfile" or die "Couldn't open $outfile, $!";

  print OUT "$sql\n";


if($db->Sql($sql)){
  #...FAILED...
  my ($ErrNum, $ErrText, $ErrConn) = $db->Error();
}

while($db->FetchRow()){
  my %data = $db->DataHash();
  #...Processing Data...
}

$db->Close();
}

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