connect('database=[DATABASE];host=localhost;port=3306','[USER]',...)

Instead of [DATABASE]. If that’s not the trouble, then I’m suspicious of problems with old-style passwords in your MySQL account. Sometimes certain software can connect to an account with an old-style password and other software can’t. There is a section in the MySQL Manual on that. Even though you’d think the error would be something like “Client does not support authentication protocol requested,” I have seen cases where Perl programs fail with what looks like a wrong-password error instead.

mysql-query-profiler --user [USER] -d [DATABASE] --pass [CORRECTPASS] --verbosity 3 queries.sql

But this is what I keep seeing:

DBI connect('database=[DATABASE];host=localhost;port=3306','[DATABASE]',...) failed: Access denied for user '[USER]'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /usr/bin/mysql-query-profiler line 168

Is there any special way I need to give this tool the password? I am specifying it with “–pass” as the perldoc suggests?

Thanks.

Output Sample:

100 select id, name from user where email={}
94  select password from user where name={}
11  update user set name={}, password={} where id={}