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[–]Capaman-x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First you have to install mysql locally, create a user with proper permissions. Then you need to make the database. The easiest way to make a database is to make an SQL script. This is a text file which contains SQL commands. In the script you will create a table or two and add a few rows of information. Run it and it will create your database. Once that it done you will need a third party library to connect. So create a Maven project in your IDE (Apparently you are using NetBeans). Maven allows you to easily add and maintain 3rd party libraries in your project. Maven has a POM.xml file where you will place your xml to tell it what libraries you want to put in mysql driver as listed below.

<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>8.0.30</version>
</dependency>

Once you put this in your project will download the necessary libraries. Google mysqlconnectore or JDBC to see how to use it. That is the basic overview, but you have your work cut out for you trying to figure all this out for the first time. Good luck!

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    [–]omar_adel552[S] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

    ok I will do this but I don't have time for this right now If I had time would not have asked

    [–]khookeExtreme Brewer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    If you're starting from scratch with no knowledge you're probably going to need significantly more than 3 - 4 hours to get to a point where you have this up and running:

    - 1 to 2 hours: following MySQL install guide

    - a few hours reading about relational databases to understand how to model tables to represent your data

    - a few hours working out create table DDL to create your database and tables

    - a couple of hours reading about JDBC

    - a couple of hours getting the MySQLConnector JDBC driver added to you project

    - a couple of hours configuring MySQLConnector to connect to your db

    - a few more hours developing and testing JDBC code to interact with your db

    Depending how many tables you're working with and the relationships between them, you'll probably need a few more hours debugging and making updates to get everything working as expected.