MySQL

Connect & Ingest data from / to a MySQL database

Setup

The following credentials keys are accepted:

• host (required) -> The hostname / ip of the instance

• user (required) -> The username to access the instance

• database (required) -> The database name of the instance

• schema (optional) -> The default schema to use

• password (optional) -> The password to access the instance

• port (optional) -> The port of the instance. Default is 3306.

• ssh_tunnel (optional) -> The URL of the SSH server you would like to use as a tunnel (example ssh://user:[e-mail]:22)

• ssh_private_key (optional) -> The private key to use to access a SSH server (raw string or path to file).

• ssh_passphrase (optional) -> The passphrase to use to access a SSH server.

Additional Parameters (since v1.2.19). See here for more details:

• allow_all_files -> Allows using LOCAL DATA INFILE without restrictions (true or false)

• allow_cleartext_passwords -> Permits sending passwords in clear text (true or false)

• allow_fallback_to_plaintext -> Allows fallback to unencrypted connection if server doesn't support TLS (true or false)

• allow_native_passwords -> Enables the native password authentication method (true or false)

• allow_old_passwords -> Allows the old insecure password method (true or false)

• charset -> Sets the charset for server-side prepared statements (e.g., utf8mb4)

• check_conn_liveness -> Checks connection liveness before using it (true or false)

• collation -> Sets the collation for server-side prepared statements (e.g., utf8mb4_general_ci)

• client_found_rows -> Returns number of matching rows instead of rows changed (true or false)

• columns_with_alias -> Prepares result columns as if they have an alias (true or false)

• interpolate_params -> Interpolates placeholders instead of using prepared statements (true or false)

• loc -> Sets the location for time.Time values (e.g., Local, UTC, or a time zone name)

• time_truncate -> Truncates time values to the given precision (true or false)

• max_allowed_packet -> Max packet size allowed (integer value in bytes)

• multi_statements -> Allows multiple statements in one query (true or false)

• parse_time -> Converts TIME/DATE/DATETIME to time.Time (true or false)

• read_timeout -> I/O read timeout (duration string, e.g., 30s, 0.5m, 1h)

• reject_read_only -> Rejects read-only connections (true or false)

• server_pub_key -> Server public key name (string)

• timeout -> Timeout for establishing connections (duration string, e.g., 30s, 0.5m, 1h)

• tls -> TLS configuration name (true, false, skip-verify, or custom TLS config name)

• write_timeout -> I/O write timeout (duration string, e.g., 30s, 0.5m, 1h)

• connection_attributes -> Connection attributes to send to MySQL (comma-separated list of key-value pairs)

Using sling conns

Here are examples of setting a connection named MYSQL. We must provide the type=mysql property:

$ sling conns set MYSQL type=mysql host=<host> user=<user> database=<database> password=<password> port=<port> 

# OR use url
$ sling conns set MYSQL url="mysql://myuser:[e-mail]:3306/mydatabase?tls=skip-verify"

Environment Variable

export MYSQL='mysql://myuser:[e-mail]:3306/mydatabase?tls=skip-verify'

Sling Env File YAML

See here to learn more about the sling env.yaml file.

connections:
  MYSQL:
    type: mysql
    host: <host>
    user: <user>
    port: <port>
    database: <database>
    schema: <schema>
    password: <password>

  MYSQL_URL:
    url: "mysql://myuser:[e-mail]:3306/mydatabase?tls=skip-verify"

Database user creation

To allow Sling to access your database, we need to create a user with the proper privileges. Please follow the steps below:

1. First you’ll need to login as a user with CREATE USER and GRANT OPTION privileges. Create a user sling (or whatever you prefer) by running :

   CREATE USER 'sling'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';

2. If you are planning to load data into this connection, you need to grant the following privileges to that user so we can create tables in schema sling:

   CREATE SCHEMA sling;
   GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, CREATE VIEW ON sling.* TO 'sling'@'%';

3. If you are planning to extract data from this connection, you need to give permission to read the tables you'd like Sling to extract.

   -- To give read access to all tables in a specific schema
   GRANT SELECT ON <schema_name>.* TO  'sling'@'%';

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