mattdope,

Please read How do I post a question effectively?, did you Super Search or look in the Tutorials section of this site before posting? In Tutorials there is a Database Programming section. Did you read the DBI documentation or the documentation for the database driver for your database (you have not indicated which database platform you are using). The documentation contains code which you can use to test database connectivity. For example if you were using MySQL:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use DBI();

# Connect to the database.
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=test;host=localhost",
                     "joe", "joe's password",
                     {'RaiseError' => 1});

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This is taken from the DBD::mysql documentation.

Martin

In reply to Re: dbi test program by marto
in thread dbi test program by mattdope

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