What is the MySQL JDBC driver connection string?

Assuming your driver is in path,

String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/test";Class.forName ("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance ();Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection (url, "username", "password");

Here's the documentation:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/en/connector-j-reference-configuration-properties.html

A basic connection string looks like:

jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dbname

The class.forName string is "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver", which you can find (edit: now on the same page).

"jdbc:mysql://localhost"

From the oracle docs..

jdbc:mysql://[host][,failoverhost...][:port]/[database][?propertyName1][=propertyValue1][&propertyName2][=propertyValue2]

host:port is the host name and port number of the computer hosting your database. If not specified, the default values of host and port are 127.0.0.1 and 3306, respectively.

database is the name of the database to connect to. If not specified, a connection is made with no default database.

failover is the name of a standby database (MySQL Connector/J supports failover).

propertyName=propertyValue represents an optional, ampersand-separated list of properties. These attributes enable you to instruct MySQL Connector/J to perform various tasks.