What is the MySQL JDBC driver connection string?

Question

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.

It is very simple :

1. Go to MySQL workbench and lookup for Database > Manage Connections
2. you will see a list of connections. Click on the connection you wish to connect to.
3. You will see a tabs around connection, remote management, system profile. Click on connection tab.
4. your url is jdbc:mysql://<hostname>:<port>/<dbname>?prop1 etc. where <hostname> and <port> are given in the connection tab.It will mostly be localhost : 3306. <dbname> will be found under System Profile tab in Windows Service Name. Default will mostly be MySQL5<x> where x is the version number eg. 56 for MySQL5.6 and 55 for MySQL5.5 etc.You can specify ur own Windows Service name to connect too.
5. Construct the url accordingly and set the url to connect.

For Mysql, the jdbc Driver connection string is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver. Use the following code to get connected:-

class DBConnection {
   private static Connection con = null;
   private static String USERNAME = "your_mysql_username";
   private static String PASSWORD = "your_mysql_password";
   private static String DRIVER = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
   private static String URL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/database_name";

   public static Connection getDatabaseConnection(){
       Class.forName(DRIVER);
       return con = DriverManager.getConnection(URL,USERNAME,PASSWORD);
   }
}

As the answer seems already been answered, there is not much to add but I would like to add one thing to the existing answers. This was the way of loading class for JDBC driver for mysql

com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

But this is deprecated now. The new driver class is now

com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver

Also the driver is automatically registered via the SPI and manual loading of the driver class is generally unnecessary.

update for mySQL 8 :

String jdbcUrl="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/youdatabase?useSSL=false&serverTimezone=UTC";