How do I connect to a MySQL database from a perl program? use perl DBI module to connect to a MySQL database as explained below. If you don’t have perl DBI and DBD::mysql module installed, install perl module using cpan as we discussed earlier. # perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> install DBI cpan> install DBD::mysql On a very high level, you’ll have to do the following three steps to connect to a MySQL database and get data. 1. Connect to the MySQL Database In the DBI module, you’ll use the connect function as shown below. $dbc = DBI->connect($source, $username, $password) DBI->connect function takes the following three arguments: $source – This is in the format of “DBI:mysql:[database]:[hostname]”. Replace the [database] and [hostname] with values from your system. In the example shown below, it is connecting to the database called “mycompany” that is running on the localhost. $username – The username that is used to connect to the MySQL database. $pass...
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