Connect to a remote MS SQL database

Hello,

** First time posting, please excuse possible novice mistakes **

SETUP:
web server: win 32 Apache running on a windows 2003 server machine,
activePerl
database: MS SQL hosted on a separate windows server at my organization.

PROBLEM:
I cannot get my $dbh -> connect() line to work.

I have spent all day reading different documentation for DBI and DBD::ODBC,
as well as
different websites, and I can't make a connection.

Does anyone have experience with these Microsoft beasts?

Here is the sample code that I have hobbled together from different docs:

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use DBI;
use strict;
use diagnostics;

my $data_source = 'driver={SQL Server};Server=<server_name>;
                   database=<database_name>;uid=<username>;
                   pwd=<passwrd>;';

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$data_source") or die "$DBI::errstr";
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I do not have the errors, because I do not have read access to the error
logs right now, and
CGI::carp is not working correctly.

Also, I checked and ODBC is listed as an available driver for DBI.


I would appreciate if anyone has some light to shed on the problem.


Thank you,

Jordan Mueller
Data Manager
Brigham and Women's Hospital

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