It's this easy to connect...

Simple, descriptive, and uncluttered:

  #!/usr/bin/perl -w

  use strict;  
  use Finance::DBI;
  
  my $db = Finance::DBI->Connect('Chart') or die "$!";

  __END__

Try that with DBI!

The configuration magic is in Finance::DBI, which sub-classes
DBIx::DWIW.