Here's one link to the perl DBI POD. It's the best POD documentation I've seen. Kudos to the POD writers. http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/DBI/DBI.html -----Original Message----- From: Smith, Jim R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 12:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DBD::ODBC (say what?) I have a little experience with perl. 99.999% of it is on Unix. My boss came up with a project involving an NT server, Microsoft SQL Server, and MS-Access datbases. I'm fairly confident that I can figure out perl and NT. I have read postings that mention DBI,DBD::ODBC etc. I need some guidance as to finding newbie documentation for the database interface, and what modules I would need to install on top of perl v5.6 to make this work. Thanks for your help. jim