Re: Need help connecting to local database with mysql

2002-12-23 Thread Bill Lovett
Hi. I noticed a couple of weird things with your script: - The error DBI-connect(myd) failed: Couldn't connect to... is happening I think because 'DBI:mysqlPP:myd' is in single quotes when you call DBI-connect, and the syntax seems off. Maybe you'll have better success if you follow the syntax

Need help connecting to local database with mysql

2002-12-22 Thread Melissa Stranzl
Hi all: I am sending a perl program I am trying to run which doesn't connect to the database. The error message is at the bottom of the e-mail. I think the program is going to the sock file and not TCP/IP and I don't know how to change this, but I'm not sure whether this is the error, so any