my current perl #!C:\perl\bin\perl use warnings; use strict; use DBI; my $hostname = 'mysql.208.233.55.555:3306'; my $database = 'actaulDBNotGiven'; my $user = 'ActualNameNotGiven'; my $password = ''; my $driver = 'mysql'; my $dsn = "DBI:$driver:database=$database;host=$hostname"; my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $password) or die "Can't connect\n $!\n"; print "$_\n" for $dbh->tables; $dbh->disconnect(); exit;