MySQL connection

To access your data in MySQL, create a connection asset for it.

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system.

Supported versions

  • MySQL Enterprise Edition 5.0+
  • MySQL Community Edition 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7

Create a connection to MySQL

To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:

  • Database name
  • Hostname or IP Address
  • Port number
  • Character Encoding
  • Username and password
  • SSL certificate (if required by the database server)

For Credentials and Certificates, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.

Choose the method for creating a connection based on where you are in the platform

In a project
Click Assets > New asset > Data access tools > Connection. See Adding a connection to a project.
In a catalog
Click Add to catalog > Connection. See Adding a connection asset to a catalog.
In a deployment space
Click Add to space > Connection. See Adding connections to a deployment space.
In the Platform assets catalog
Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.

Next step: Add data assets from the connection

Where you can use this connection

You can use MySQL connections in the following workspaces and tools:

Projects

  • AutoAI (Watson Machine Learning)
  • Cognos Dashboards (Cognos Dashboards service)
  • Data quality rules (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
  • DataStage (DataStage service). See Connecting to a data source in DataStage.
  • Metadata enrichment (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
  • Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
  • Notebooks (Watson Studio). Click Read data on the Code snippets pane to get the connection credentials and load the data into a data structure. See Load data from data source connections.
  • SPSS Modeler (SPSS Modeler service)

Catalogs

  • Platform assets catalog

  • Other catalogs (Watson Knowledge Catalog)

Watson Query service
You can connect to this data source from Watson Query.

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance

The MySQL connection is compliant with FIPS except for a connection that requires SSL.

Running SQL statements

To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the MySQL documentation for the correct syntax.

MySQL setup

MySQL Installation

Learn more

MySQL documentation

Parent topic: Supported connections