Connecting to a MySQL Database

    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
    }