Hi everyone i have been having trouble trying to understand what exactly is going on if anyone had the same experience as me please do let me know. I am trying to make my perl script on my Centos box talk to a MSSQL server. I have installed the freetds package and the sybase driver .Which a DBI trace give me the following Driver: DBM Data Source is DBIBM:f_dir=. Data Source is DBIBM:f_dir=freetds-0.64 Data Source is DBIBM:f_dir=DBD-ODBC-1.13 Data Source is DBIBM:f_dir=DBD-Sybase-1.07 Driver: ExampleP Data Source is dbi:ExampleP:dir=. Driver: File Data Source is DBI:File:f_dir=. Data Source is DBI:File:f_dir=freetds-0.64 Data Source is DBI:File:f_dir=DBD-ODBC-1.13 Data Source is DBI:File:f_dir=DBD-Sybase-1.07 Driver: Proxy install_driver(Proxy) failed: Can't locate RPC/PlClient.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/DBD/Proxy.pm line 28. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/DBD/Proxy.pm line 28. Compilation failed in require at (eval 9) line 3. Perhaps a module that DBD:roxy requires hasn't been fully installed at DBDDriverTester.pl line 19 My Relevant drivers are here. But when i run my simple connection script DBI connect('CustomerDB:ADEV01,'wiki',...) failed: (no error string) at mssqltestfinal.pl line 18 couldn't connect to mssql db at mssqltestfinal.pl line 18. Can anyone shed any light I have installed the PlRPC-0.2018.tar but now another problem appears with log.pm but i don't think this is related to the problem i am having as all my other drivers are installed. Many thanks in advance