Actually, you don't need to create a DSN at all, here's an example for an Access database: $dbq = 'C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\Samples\\Northwind.mdb'; $dsn = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=$dbq;DefaultDir=C:\temp"; $db = new Win32::ODBC($dsn); -- Simon Oliver _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.activestate.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users