I'd wager your problems have to do with this construct:

foreach (my ($key, $value) = each (%take_counts)) {
    print OUTPUT "$host\t$key\t$value\n";
}
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Compare the following

my %take_counts = (
     foo => 1,
     bar => 2,
     baz => 3,
);

print "while:\n";

while (my ($key, $value) = each (%take_counts)) {
    print "\t$key\t$value\n";
}

print "foreach:\n";

foreach (my ($key, $value) = each (%take_counts)) {
    print "\t$key\t$value\n";
}

__END__
while:
    bar    2
    baz    3
    foo    1
foreach:
    bar    2
    bar    2
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I supect you meant to get what while (...) would give you...

(The foreach loop iterates over the two elements $key and $value that are being returned by calling each %take_counts once...)

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Other than that (though nothing to do with your immediate problem), the usage of {RaiseError=>1} in combination with || die doesn't make much sense:

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=$database:host=$host",$db_u
+ser,$db_pass,{RaiseError=>1})|| die "$DBI::errstr\n";
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because in case of an error, when RaiseError is set, the connect call would already have died by itself before it gets to execute the || die "$DBI::errstr\n" (i.e. it does not return).   In other words, use either one of those instead

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=$database:host=$host",$db_u
+ser,$db_pass) || die "$DBI::errstr\n";

# or
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=$database:host=$host",$db_u
+ser,$db_pass,{RaiseError=>1});
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