{"id":923,"date":"2019-12-06T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T09:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/artoftesting.com\/\/?p=923"},"modified":"2023-04-27T14:34:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:04:32","slug":"connect-to-mysql-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoftesting.com\/connect-to-mysql-java","title":{"rendered":"Connect to MySQL Database using Java"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\"><p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Content<\/p>\n<\/div><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/artoftesting.com\/connect-to-mysql-java\/#Why_do_we_need_to_connect_to_the_databases\" title=\"Why do we need to connect to the databases?\">Why do we need to connect to the databases?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/artoftesting.com\/connect-to-mysql-java\/#Connecting_to_MySQL_Database_in_Java\" title=\"Connecting to MySQL Database in Java\">Connecting to MySQL Database in Java<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/artoftesting.com\/connect-to-mysql-java\/#Sample_code_to_connect_to_a_MySQL_database\" title=\"Sample code to connect to a MySQL database\">Sample code to connect to a MySQL database<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_do_we_need_to_connect_to_the_databases\"><\/span>Why do we need to connect to the databases?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To get test data &#8211; If we connect to the database, we can directly fetch the test data from the database and then work on them in the test automation script.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To verify result &#8211; In automation, we can verify the front end result with backend entry in the database.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To delete test data created &#8211; In automation it is good practice to delete the test data created, using database automation, we directly fire the delete query to delete the test data created.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To update certain data &#8211; As per the need for a test script, the test data can be updated using an update query.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also check: <a href=\"http:\/\/artoftesting.com\/string-handling-in-java\">String Handling in Java<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Connecting_to_MySQL_Database_in_Java\"><\/span>Connecting to MySQL Database in Java<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Database automation in MySQL database involves the following steps-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> Loading the required MySQL JDBC Driver class, which in our case is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver. You can download the jar from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mvnrepository.com\/artifact\/mysql\/mysql-connector-java\/5.1.18\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and add it to your classpath or add it as maven dependency in your pom.xml file in case you are using a maven project. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: java; gutter: false; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nClass.forName(&quot;com.mysql.jdbc.Driver&quot;);\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> Creating a connection to the database<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: java; gutter: false; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nConnection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(&quot;DatabaseURL&quot;,&quot;UserName&quot;, &quot;Password&quot;);\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> Executing SQL queries-<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: java; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nStatement st = conn.createStatement();\nString Sql = &quot;select * from &#x5B;tableName] where &lt;condition&gt;&quot;;\nResultSet rs = st.executeQuery(Sql);\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> Fetching data from result set-<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nwhile (rs.next()) {\n\tSystem.out.println(rs.getString(&amp;lt;requiredField&gt;));\n}\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sample_code_to_connect_to_a_MySQL_database\"><\/span>Sample code to connect to a MySQL database<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: java; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nimport java.sql.Connection;\nimport java.sql.DriverManager;\nimport java.sql.ResultSet;\nimport java.sql.SQLException;\nimport java.sql.Statement;\n\npublic class connectingToMySQLDBExample {\n\n    private static String userName;\n    private static String password;\n    private static String dbURL;\n    private static Connection connection;\n\t\n    public static void main(String&#x5B;] args) {\n\ttry {\n\t\tuserName = &quot;username&quot;;\n\t\tpassword = &quot;password&quot;;\n\t\tdbURL = &quot;jdbc:mysql:\/\/artoftesting.com\/testDB&quot;;\n\t\ttry {\n\t\t\tClass.forName(&quot;com.mysql.jdbc.Driver&quot;);\n\t\t}\n                catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {\n\t\t\tSystem.out.println(&quot;MySQL JDBC driver not found.&quot;);\n\t\t\te.printStackTrace();\n\t\t}\n\t\ttry {\n\t\t\tconnection = DriverManager.getConnection(dbURL, userName, password);\n\t\t\tStatement st = connection.createStatement();\n\t\t\tString sqlStr = &quot;select * from testTable&quot;;\n\t\t\tResultSet rs = st.executeQuery(sqlStr);\n\t\t\twhile (rs.next()) {\n\t\t\t\tSystem.out.println(rs.getString(&quot;name&quot;));\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t} catch (SQLException e) {\n\t\t\t\tSystem.out.println(&quot;Connection to MySQL db failed&quot;);\n\t\t\t e.printStackTrace();\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t} catch (Exception e) {\n\t\t\te.printStackTrace();\n\t\t}\n\t}\n}\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br>For a complete step by step Selenium tutorial, you can check our free tutorial series &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/artoftesting.com\/selenium-tutorial\">Selenium with Java Tutorial<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we need to connect to the databases? 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