Listing 1. Trevor Price's Perl Script that Queries the Sample

#!/usr/bin/perl

#
# test the db2 dbi driver
#

use DBI ;
$user = 'sa' ;
$passwd = 'password' ;


$dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:Sybase:server=file1',
$user, $passwd);
$dbh->do("use Northwind");

$action = $dbh->prepare("sp_help") ;
$action->execute ;
$rows = $action->rows ;
print "rows is $rows\n";

while ( @first = $action->fetchrow_array ) {
        foreach $field ( @first ) {
        print "$field\t";
        }
        print "\n";
}

exit(0);