Coincidentally, I used perl DBI for the very first time last night, and this
worked for me fine:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:mysql','username','mypassword')
or die "couldn't connect to database: ".DBI->errstr;
$dbh->disconnect();
Regards,
Gary "SuperID" Huntress
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> Does anyone know the correct syntax to connect to a mysql database with
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> I tried the syntax mentioned in the Perl DBI O'Reilly book, but I got
errors.
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> thanks
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