I think you want something like this: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;

my $DB='database';
my $HOST='remote_host_ip_address';
my $user='user_name';
my $pass='password';
my $table='table_to_be_dumped';

my $file_to_be_written_to="c:/temp/output.txt";

# Connect to database.
my $dbh=DBI->connect( "DBI:mysql:database=$DB;host=$HOST;", $user, $pa
+ss) or die "$!\n";
my $sth=$dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM $table") or die "$!\n";
$sth->execute();
open(FH, ">$file_to_be_written_to") or die "$!\n";
while (my @row=$sth->fetchrow_array()) {
    print FH join(",", @row)."\n";
}
close FH;
$sth->finish();
$dbh->disconnect();

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...BUT: You will come unstuck if you have any commas in your table data. To take care of that, look at text::csv or similar.

In reply to Re: mysql remote server query by leighsharpe
in thread mysql remote server query by terry1738

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