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e236. Connecting to a MySQL Database

This example connects to a MySQL database using the MM JDBC driver for MySQL. You need to have an account in MySQL database to run this example. To create an account, you can connect to MySQL database on your platform as root, and run the following command:
    mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO username@localhost
    IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
    
    Connection connection = null;
    try {
        // Load the JDBC driver
        String driverName = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver"; // MySQL MM JDBC driver
        Class.forName(driverName);
    
        // Create a connection to the database
        String serverName = "localhost";
        String mydatabase = "mydatabase";
        String url = "jdbc:mysql://" + serverName +  "/" + mydatabase; // a JDBC url
        String username = "username";
        String password = "password";
        connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        // Could not find the database driver
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        // Could not connect to the database
    }

 Related Examples
e235. Connecting to an Oracle Database
e237. Connecting to a SQLServer Database
e238. Listing All Available Parameters for Creating a JDBC Connection
e239. Determining If a Database Supports Transactions
e240. Committing and Rolling Back Updates to a Database
e241. Handling a SQL Exception
e242. Determining If a SQL Warning Occurred
e243. Getting the Driver of a Connection
e244. Setting the Number of Rows to Prefetch When Executing a SQL Query

See also: Batching    Database Meta Data    Deleting Data    Drivers    Importing and Exporting    Inserting and Updating Data    Oracle OBJECTs    Oracle VARRAYs    Procedures and Functions    Retrieving Data    Scrollable Result Sets    Tables    Updatable Result Sets   


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