ODBC and MS SQL Server 2000 Connection

peacemaker1820 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to connect to MS SQL Server 2000 that is on my NT server. That's the code I have below but when I try to view through a browser it gives me the following error:

"Perhaps the capitalisation of DBD 'ODBC' isn't right. at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\cgibin\database.pl line 14 HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: text/html"

print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n";
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD>\n";
print "<BODY>\n";

use DBI;
use DBD::ODBC;
use CGI;

my ( $server_name, $database, $user_id, $password ) = qw( 'sdp-si.biz' 'SDPSI' 'myusername' 'mypassowrd' );

#Connect the database handle.
$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:ODBC:$DSN") or die "$DBI::errstr\n";

#Close connection when finished:
$dbh->disconnect;

print "</BODY>\n";
print "</HTML>\n";

I already installed the DBI package, and i read that DBD::ODBC comes with Active Perl already(that's what i have). WHAT SHOULD I DO??? PLEASE HELP MANY THANKS!

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Re: ODBC and MS SQL Server 2000 Connection by dws (Chancellor) on Jun 28, 2002 at 20:23 UTC
I already installed the DBI package, and i read that DBD::ODBC comes with Active Perl already(that's what i have). WHAT SHOULD I DO??? 1. `use strict;` 2. `$\|++; # to unbuffer STDOUT` 3. provide a value for `$DSN` This won't solve your problem, but it'll get you closer.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: ODBC and MS SQL Server 2000 Connection by Moonie (Friar) on Jun 28, 2002 at 20:30 UTC
You may also want to look at Win32::ODBC - Moon	[reply]
Re: ODBC and MS SQL Server 2000 Connection by thunders (Priest) on Jun 28, 2002 at 20:47 UTC
first off if you are going to use CGI you might as well use it to print the header.. `#!perl -w # ^ you may need that first line # my local Apache server does... use DBI; use CGI qw/:standard/; print header;` [download] Also take out `use DBD::ODBC;` it's nota module you need to import. it's a driver. generally just use DBI. You may Need to Set up a "System DSN" connection to the SQL Server in Conrol Panel->Data Sources(ODBC). and you will have to declare a value for $DSN. Also make sure that the driver for SQL Server is in you list of Drivers in the Same ODBC Panel	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: ODBC and MS SQL Server 2000 Connection by peacemaker1820 (Pilgrim) on Jun 28, 2002 at 21:10 UTC
print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n"; print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; print "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD>\n"; print "<BODY>\n"; use DBI; #use DBD::ODBC; use CGI; my ( $data_source, $database, $user_id, $password ) = qw( sdp-si.biz SDPSI username password ); my $DSN = "driver={SQL Server};Server=$data_source;Database=$database;UID=$user_id;PWD=$password"; #Connect the database handle. $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:ODBC:$DSN") or die "$DBI::errstr\n"; print "hello there"; #Close connection when finished: $dbh->disconnect; print "hello there"; print "</BODY>\n"; print "</HTML>\n";	[reply]


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