DBD::Sybase

This is one of the means of allowing perl to connect directly to databases such as Sybase and MS's SQL Server. (SQL Server is based of the same code as Sybase.)

Some good links:

http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler/ - author of Sybperl, DBD::Sybase, etc

http://www.freetds.org/userguide/x1027.htm - howto on getting DBD::ODBC to compile with FreeTDS

http://www.freetds.org - free Tabular Data Seperation driver for various OS's