note dragooneye Thanks a million briantillman and CleverFox. Couldn't have done this without you guys. After following your steps, I got a script to connect and make queries. This will save me a LOT of time. I have <ul> <li>MS SQL Server 2005</li> <li>Perl 5.8.5</li> <li>libdbi 0.6.5</li> <li>RHEL 4 nahant u 5</li> </ul> Needed DBD-Sybase-1.04 as briantillman pointed out (from [http://www.peppler.org/freeware/dbd-sybase.html]). For noobs such as myself, needed to use the following to grab my versions: <ul> <li>cat /etc/redhat-release</li> <li>rpm -qa | grep libdbi</li> <li>perl -v</li> </ul> Other observations (which could be triggered by my older versions of things): the <code> export SYBASE=/usr/local/freetds </code> wouldn't work with the latest DBD-Sybase-1.11. I would get <code> # perl Makefile.PL Unknown Client Library version - assuming FreeTDS. </code> Also when doing a make with DBD-Sybase-1.11 and my versions, I would get the following: <code> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/Driver_xst.h: In function `dbixst_bounce_method': /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/Driver_xst.h:14: error: `my_perl' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/Driver_xst.h:14: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/Driver_xst.h:14: error: for each function it appears in.) /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/Driver_xst.h: In function `dbdxst_bind_params': /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/Driver_xst.h:54: error: `my_perl' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/Driver_xst.h: In function `dbdxst_fetchall_arrayref': /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/Driver_xst.h:75: error: `my_perl' undeclared (first use in this function) make: *** [Sybase.o] Error 1 </code> One last note, I am able to connect to MS SQL Server 2005 with tds version = 7.0. 392385 776533