Fellow monks,
I am entirely new to DBI, and wanted to start at the beginning and simply connect to the mysql server, but from the start I have been having trouble. (Note: that my test machine and the mysql server are two separate boxes). I am using activestate perl 5.8 on windows 2000. I am trying to connect to a mysql server (also on windows 2000). Can anybody give me any clues as to what I'm doing wrong. Here's the code: 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use DBI;

my $database="testdb";
my $host="server";
my $port="3306";
my $dsn = "DBI:ODBC:MSSQL:database=$database; host=$host; port=$port";
my $user = 'tester'; 
my $auth = 'password';
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,$user,$auth,{ RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit 
+=> 1});

die "Can't connect: " . DBI->errstr() unless $dbh;

print "Success: connected\n";
$dbh->disconnect();

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Here's the error message I am receiving: 
DBI connect('MSSQL:database=testdb; host=server; port=3306','tester',.
+..) failed
: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no d
+efault dri
ver specified (SQL-IM002)(DBD: db_login/SQLConnect err=-1) at dbitest.
+pl line 12

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Thanks in advance,
Jonathan

In reply to DBI connection to a remote host by Anonymous Monk

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