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in reply to Connecting to remote db with DBI

It looks like you're making a mistake when building the DSN: constrast yours ("DBI:mysql:$db;host=$host") and the one provided in the documentation of DBD::mysql: 

use DBI;

$dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$hostname;port=$port";

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You're missing the "database=" before $db.

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Re^2: Connecting to remote db with DBI
by dana (Monk) on Mar 23, 2007 at 21:16 UTC

    Thank you.

    I needed the 'database=' in the statement. I also had to use the hostname rather than the IP address, however this may be a network issue.

    My final connection code looks like the following:
    my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$db;host=$host";
    my $dbh = DBI->connect( $dsn, $user, $pass, { RaiseError => 1 }) or die ( "Couldn't connect to database: " . DBI->errstr );

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      Worked the first try !!
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