As jaco already pointed out you need to spruce up that DSN a bit. 

my $database="ciprestest";
my $host="localhost";
my $DSN=sprintf("DBI:mysql:database=%s:host=%s",
                $database,$host;
my $dby = DBI->connect($DSN,$dbuser,$dbpass,
                 {RaiseErrors => 1 ) 
    or die $DBI->errstr;

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Also you might want to make sure your permissions within MySQL are correct. If the user@host combination is not set up with permissions to access the database you'll get bounced out. Check tables mysql.Db, mysql.User and mysql.Host and make sure they are set up correctly.

In reply to Re: DBI confusion by blue_cowdawg
in thread DBI confusion by rvosa

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