3.2.1 DBI.Connection class: connecting

connect: aDSN user: aUserName password: aPassword

Connect to the database server identified by aDSN using the given username and password. The DSN is in the format dbi:DriverName:dbname=database_name;host=hostname;port=port Where dbi is constant, DriverName is the name of the driver, and everything else is parameters in the form name1=value1;name2=value2;...

Individual drivers may parse the parameters differently, though the existing ones all support parameters dbname, host and port.

paramConnect: params user: aUserName password: aPassword

Connect to the database server using the parameters in params (a Dictionary) and the given username and password (abstract).