Please Brethren HELP
I am very new to SQL and ODBC (so please do help me). I have written the following simple code, which inserts an entry (record) into an access database. In order to establish and maintain referential integrity, I need to know the Index key value of this entry to tie it up with its sub records.

use strict;
use Win32;
use warnings 'all';
use Win32::ODBC;
my $dsn = "test";
my $srv_tbl = "server_tbl";
my $drv_tbl = "drives_tbl";
my $srv = shift @ARGV; 
my $loc = shift @ARGV; 
my $notes = pop @ARGV;
my $db = new Win32::ODBC( $dsn ) || die "\nError! $^E:$!\n";
$db->Sql("INSERT INTO $srv_tbl (srv_name, location, notes) VALUES ('$s
+rv','$loc','$notes')");
my $sql= “select srv_id from server_tbl where srv_name='$srv'”; #this 
+bit doesn’t work
print "Index Key: $sql\n"
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This bit doen't work (my $sql= “select srv_id from server_tbl where srv_name='$srv'”); Can someone please get me out of my misery, and inform me why.

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