From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2003-02-01T03:21:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] ruby-dbi

that's funny, for postgres I've been using this as the connection string:
"DBI:Pg:dbname=mydatabase;host=myhost.com"

Are these just two equivalent forms, or is the connection string DBD dependent
after the DBI:Driver: part of the string?

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:26:45AM +0900, Travis Whitton wrote:
> > how to connect to a remote DB server? 
> 
> require 'dbi'
> dbh = DBI.connect("DBI:Mysql:mydatabase:myhost.com", "someuser", "somepass")
> 
> Substitute myhost.com with the address of your remote server. You also need to
> have your remote SQL server setup to listen through a socket.

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