Re: How can I see error messages from MySQL?

DBI has return values for each one of its calls, so it would be wise to or your connect statement, like:

$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI::mysql ... etc $dsn") 
    or die("Couldn't connect to $dsn: $DBI::errstr\n");
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this way, you'll always get an error message if something goes wrong.