in reply to [SOLVED-ISH]DBI Connection Fails with Access Denied on one version of Perl/DBD::MySQL and work on the other
This is a nice tough one. Out of curiosity, does your db password have any special characters in it? If so, you may want to use single quotes when setting it
my $pass = 'PASS_REMOVED';
Also, it's probably not going to shed any light but instead of $! when failing, use $DBI::errstr
Good Luck!
-derby
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