I have been working with DBI and MySQL on and off for about two months and came across something that confused me. Reading the DBI man page I found that I should disconnect from the database before exiting the script. I assumed that after executing the script I can nolonger access the database without connecting again, but when I tired using the code below I could still get data from the database. Is there something I have missed or doesn’t the disconnect statement disconnect me from the database?

Fenonn. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:fenonn:localhost","fenonn","password
+");

$dbh->disconnect;

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT data1 FROM table1");

$sth->execute() || die "Couldn't execute statement: $DBI::errstr; stop
+ped";

my ( $data ) = $sth->fetchrow_array();

print $data;

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