Use the 'mysql' program on the command line. Running 'mysql -h' should get you started.

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-- Schemer

Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated

I would recommend a dash of 'before asking a database related question', a great article by gmax followed by a spash of 'RTFM'. :)

A liberal dose of those two sites should get you up and running...

Best o'luck to you.

To quote my favorite Marine Drill Seargeant: "What kind of disorganized grabastic question is that?"

Returning to my kindly Perl-Monkish helpful personality:

Check this out:

#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql","user","password")
  or die $DBI::errstr;
$dbh->execute("create database blah") 
  or die $dbh::errstr;

As for "seeing" the database that depends on what you mean by that.

Thanks.