A Few changed and your code will work..

Try changing

my %opts=(GetOptions(
           'help|?'     => \$help,
           'server'     => \$server,
           'user'     => \$user,
           'password'     => \$password
          ));
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to

GetOptions (\%opts,
      qw(    help|h|?
               server=s
               user=s
               password=s
          ));
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also put everything after

    &Help;
}
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into and elsif statement something like

    &Help;
}
elsif( defined $opts{server} && defined $opts{user} && defined $opts{p
+assword} ) {
    my $mytime=(time);
        ...
}
else {
        &Help;
}
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Then for your database connection bit try using the following:

my $dbh;
my $DSN = "driver={SQL Server};Server=$opts{server};database=$database
+;";
if ($dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN","$opts{user}","$opts{password}
+")) {
    &Logger ("...Success: connected to database $opts{server}\\$databa
+se\n");
}
else {
    &Logger("ERROR       - Cannot connect to DB: $dbh->errstr()\n");
}
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also you can't have $sth->finish if you havent prepared or ecexuted a $sth statement I.e.

my $query = "select * from sometable";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($query);
for my $rec (@records) {
    $sth->execute(@$rec);
}
$setsth->finish();
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Type Stuff - HTH

Update:Sorry Typo... change $setsth->execute(@$rec); to $sth->execute(@$rec);

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