Connecting Database on Unix server through Windows Perl script

I am just wondering if I can connect the database that is on Linux server through Windows Perl script.

Is it possible ?? If the answer is yes then any idea how we can connect Unix database with Windows Perl programming.

Thanks in advance.

Yes, in principle you can, using the DBI (database interface) module. Of course, it will depend on which database type it is and how you can access to your linux server from your windows box, but it is usually possible and even quite simple.

Okey, so we can connect like this,

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

Let me try this, Thanks a lot :-)

Assuming a MySQL db, it would need to be configured to permit access from remote hosts ...

Thank you very much for your inputs.

@Axweildr, yes I am using MySql DB (that is on unix server). Any idea how to give the permit access for the remote host ??

code snippet :-

use DBI;

my $database ="test";
my $hostname = "IP ADDRESS";
my $port = "3306";

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

#$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $password);

$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, 'mysql', '', {RaiseError => 1});
$drh = DBI->install_driver("mysql");

$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM employee");
$sth->execute;

Error :-
DBI connect('database=test;host=IP ADDRESS;port=3306','mysql',...) failed: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'IPADDRESS' (10060) at ....

Looks like I need to give remote permission to MySql ....

Thanks in advance :-)

Granted the permission to the mysql user for windows box ip id....

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON test.* TO mysql@'WINDOWS_IP_ADDRESS' IDENTIFIED BY '';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Can you please let me know if the above way is correct for permission granting...

That is the correct way to assign/grant the db permissions, but there is one additional step to enable those permissions.

Thanks FishMonger :-)

My Perl code seems to be correct but I think the MySql port 3306 is not enable for listening on my Windows box because of firewall security.

Thanks to you all once again.