I'm embarrased to ask this question but what is the syntax for connecting to a database on a different server?

This is what I have tried:

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:'dbname:hostname'","","")
  or die "ERROR 1: $DBI::errstr; stopped";

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but I get this error -
Unknown MySQL Server Host 'hostname'

I've tried fully qualified hostname and IP as well.

When I tried 'hostname:dbname' I got Unknown MySQL Server Host 'dbname' so obviously THAT isn't right. Duh.

Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks.

goosefairy

In reply to Connect to DB on different server by goosefairy

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