use DBI::Const::GetInfoType; say "SQL_DBMS_NAME [",$dbh->get_info($GetInfoType{SQL_DBMS_NAME }),"]"; say "SQL_DBMS_VER [",$dbh->get_info($GetInfoType{SQL_DBMS_VER }),"]"; say "SQL_DATABASE_NAME [",$dbh->get_info($GetInfoType{SQL_DATABASE_NAME}),"]"; say "SQL_SERVER_NAME [",$dbh->get_info($GetInfoType{SQL_SERVER_NAME }),"]"; -- output SQL_DBMS_NAME [PostgreSQL] SQL_DBMS_VER [09.02.0000] SQL_DATABASE_NAME [testdb] SQL_SERVER_NAME [testdb]