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Connect to a Database in Spring Boot

Connect to a Database in Spring Boot

Instructing Spring Boot to connect to a database can be done in application.properties via the JDBC URL, user and password as in the following example:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydb?createDatabaseIfNotExist=truespring.datasource.username=rootspring.datasource.password=root
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