Hi Perl monks there, I am getting can't call method 'Sql' on an undefined value. I suspect that there is something wrong with my connection string: I created a user DSN to my local database with windows NT authentication. Here are my codes: (I tried : DSN=SQLServer;UID=sa;PWD=xxx but to no avail) 
use strict;
use Win32::ODBC;
my $data = new Win32::ODBC("DSN=SQLServer") or die "Could not open bec
+ause of [$!]";

my $SQL = "SELECT itemNbr, Store_Num FROM sales";

my $connection;

if($connection->Sql($SQL))

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Would you please advise me? Thank you in advanced

In reply to can't call method 'Sql' on an undefined value by Anonymous Monk

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