How do you connect to a MySQL database using Oracle SQL Developer?

Craig Hyatt picture Craig Hyatt · Sep 18, 2008 · Viewed 152.7k times · Source

I have Oracle SQL Developer already installed and am able to connect to and query Oracle databases.

Using Help -> Check for Updates I was able to install the Oracle MySQL Browser extension but there are no connection options for MySQL databases.

Answer

Brian picture Brian · Sep 18, 2008

Under Tools > Preferences > Databases there is a third party JDBC driver path that must be setup. Once the driver path is setup a separate 'MySQL' tab should appear on the New Connections dialog.

Note: This is the same jdbc connector that is available as a JAR download from the MySQL website.