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 }