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in reply to How to find MySQL database exist or not

edi:

I'd make the following change:

if (defined $dbh) { print "Table does not exist.\n"; }

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The version you have checks whether $dbh is 0. (Had you used eq instead of ==, it would have checked whether $dbh contained the string 'undef'.)

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

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Re^2: How to find MySQL database exist or not
by JavaFan (Canon) on Sep 01, 2011 at 15:57 UTC
    I would not make the same change. Why bother wrapping an "X or die" inside an eval, then check whether X is false afterwards? 
    if ($dbh = DBI->do('dbi:mysql: xxxxx','root','')) {
    print "Table exists\n"
} 
else {
    print "Table does not exists";
}

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    Of course, all it checks is whether one can connect - not whether a database exists (title question) or whether a table exists (message printed).
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      JavaFan:

      Good point. I just saw the $blah == 'undef' and was immediately horrified.

      ;^)

      ...roboticus

      When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

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      And, once we are at nitpicking, it checks it after the program starts, not before (per spec). :)
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      thank you JavaFun for the reply. but it is giving an error as follows: Name "main::dbh" used only once: possible typo at C:/Program Files..... Can't locate auto/DBI/do.al in @INC
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Re^2: How to find MySQL database exist or not
by edi (Initiate) on Sep 02, 2011 at 11:12 UTC 
     
use DBI;
eval { $dbh = DBI->do('dbi:mysql:xxxxxxx','root','')
 or die "Connection Error: $DBI::errstr\n"
} ;

if (defined $dbh) { print "Table does not exist.\n"; } 
else { print "Table exist";}

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    code will print "Table exist" whether the database exist or not. Please help.
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      I think that you are mixing up a couple of things.

      There is a dataset name ($dsn) which is a mySQL database on a particular host name and port number. That has to exist or you are going "nowhere"!

      If the $dsn exists, then you can attempt to connect to it. This is where the user name and passwords are required.

      my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$hostname;port=$port"
       || die "DB data set name failed $!\n";
#
# second step #
#
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $password) 
                || die "DB connect failed $!\n";

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      The $dsn and the final connected handle, $dbh are very different things.

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