#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use DBI;

# Gather some information from the user :
print "Enter your MySQL username: ";
my $username = <STDIN>;
chomp $username;  # remove trailing newline from Enter keypress
print "Enter your MySQL password; ";
my $password = <STDIN>;
chomp $password;

# Connect to the database
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=perl:host=localhost",$username,$password) || die  "Couldn't connect to database";
print "Database connection established.";
# Prepare statement
my $sth = $dbh->prepare( "SELECT * FROM perl_table" );
# Send statement to database
$sth->execute || die "Couldn't execute statement";
# Print out the data
my @row;
while ( @row = $sth->fetchrow_array() ) {
print "@row \n";
}
# One more thing: we need to disconnect from the database server
# when we're done.
$dbh->disconnect;