Excuse me... I tried many time using your sample code for ODBC, but there is an error everytime i tried to use this code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;            # Module connection for ODBC

# Set up variables for the connection
my $server_name = "shadow";
my $server_ip = "10.207.130.8:8080";
my $database_name = "Smart Response System";
my $database_user = "cs59173";
my $database_pass = "5055";

my $DSN = "driver={SQL Server};server=$server_name;tcpip=$server_ip;da
+tabase=$database_name;uid=$database_user;pwd=$database_pass"; 
my $DBH = DBI->connect("DBI:ODBC:$DSN") or die "Couldn't open database
+: $DBI::errstr\n";
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The error message is:

DBI->connect(driver={SQL Server};server=shadow;tcpip=10.207.130.8;database=Smart Response System;uid=cs59173;pwd=5055) failed: MicrosoftODBC Driver Manager Invalid string or buffer length (SQL-S1090)(DBD: db_login/SQLConnect err=-1) at c:\Perl\SRS\sql.pl line 13

FIY, i have tried also sequence of examples by other monks, but also failed. Could you please help tracing the problems? Thanx a lot...

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