Is there any reason not to use DBI with DBD::ODBC?

No real reason for not using it, though I did not like the way of preparing SQL with questionmark placeholders at first sight:

$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT foo, bar FROM table WHERE baz=?");
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SQL is just text, Perl can manipulate it fairly well like in "... where baz=$baz"!
Skipping once more through the DBI docs, I understood now that it is for the benefit of preparing the SQL string once while substituting the variables as often as you like?!

Win32::ODBC looked much simpler, cleaner and easier for me, without the preparation overhead...

But before you start more effort now to convince me to use the much more powerful and popular DBI instead, I promise I will try it - at least to have a look if it returns NUL terminated integers as well in my case ;)

Cheers,
jonix