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21.3.5.1. Driver/Datasource Class Names, URL Syntax and Configuration Propertiesfor Connector/J

The name of the class that implements java.sql.Driver in MySQL Connector/J is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver. The org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver class name is also usable for backward compatibility with MM.MySQL, the predecessor of Connector/J. Use this class name when registering the driver, or when otherwise configuring software to use MySQL Connector/J.

JDBC URL Format

The JDBC URL format for MySQL Connector/J is as follows, with items in square brackets ([, ]) being optional:

jdbc:mysql://[host][,failoverhost...][:port]/[database] »[?propertyName1][=propertyValue1][&propertyName2][=propertyValue2]...

If the host name is not specified, it defaults to 127.0.0.1. If the port is not specified, it defaults to 3306, the default port number for MySQL servers.

jdbc:mysql://[host:port],[host:port].../[database] »[?propertyName1][=propertyValue1][&propertyName2][=propertyValue2]...

Here is a sample connection URL:

jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sakila?profileSQL=true

IPv6 Connections

For IPv6 connections, use this alternative syntax to specify hosts in the URL, address=(key=value). Supported keys are:

For example:

jdbc:mysql://address=(protocol=tcp)(host=localhost)(port=3306)(user=test)/db 

Any other parameters are treated as host-specific properties that follow the conventions of the JDBC URL properties. This now allows per-host overrides of any configuration property for multi-host connections (that is, when using failover, load balancing, or replication). Limit the overrides to user, password, network timeouts and statement and metadata cache sizes; the results of other per-host overrides are not defined.

Initial Database for Connection

If the database is not specified, the connection is made with no default database. In this case, either call the setCatalog() method on the Connection instance, or fully specify table names using the database name (that is, SELECT dbname.tablename.colname FROM dbname.tablename...) in your SQL. Opening a connection without specifying the database to use is generally only useful when building tools that work with multiple databases, such as GUI database managers.

Note

Always use the Connection.setCatalog() method to specify the desired database in JDBC applications, rather than the USE database statement.

Failover Support

MySQL Connector/J has failover support. This enables the driver to fail over to any number of slave hosts and still perform read-only queries. Failover only happens when the connection is in an autoCommit(true) state, because failover cannot happen reliably when a transaction is in progress. Most application servers and connection pools set autoCommit to true at the end of every transaction/connection use.

The failover functionality has the following behavior:

In either case, whenever you are connected to a "failed-over" server, the connection is set to read-only state, so queries that attempt to modify data will throw exceptions (the query will never be processed by the MySQL server).

Setting Configuration Properties

Configuration properties define how Connector/J will make a connection to a MySQL server. Unless otherwise noted, properties can be set for a DataSource object or for a Connection object.

Configuration properties can be set in one of the following ways:

The properties are listed in the following tables.

Connection/Authentication.

Property Name Definition Default Value Since Version
user The user to connect as all versions
password The password to use when connecting all versions
socketFactory The name of the class that the driver should use for creating socket connections to the server. This class must implement the interface 'com.mysql.jdbc.SocketFactory' and have public no-args constructor. com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory 3.0.3
connectTimeout Timeout for socket connect (in milliseconds), with 0 being no timeout. Only works on JDK-1.4 or newer. Defaults to '0'. 0 3.0.1
socketTimeout Timeout on network socket operations (0, the default means no timeout). 0 3.0.1
connectionLifecycleInterceptors A comma-delimited list of classes that implement "com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionLifecycleInterceptor" that should notified of connection lifecycle events (creation, destruction, commit, rollback, setCatalog and setAutoCommit) and potentially alter the execution of these commands. ConnectionLifecycleInterceptors are "stackable", more than one interceptor may be specified via the configuration property as a comma-delimited list, with the interceptors executed in order from left to right. 5.1.4
useConfigs Load the comma-delimited list of configuration properties before parsing the URL or applying user-specified properties. These configurations are explained in the 'Configurations' of the documentation. 3.1.5
authenticationPlugins Comma-delimited list of classes that implement com.mysql.jdbc.AuthenticationPlugin and which will be used for authentication unless disabled by "disabledAuthenticationPlugins" property. 5.1.19
defaultAuthenticationPlugin Name of a class implementing com.mysql.jdbc.AuthenticationPlugin which will be used as the default authentication plugin (see below). It is an error to use a class which is not listed in "authenticationPlugins" nor it is one of the built-in plugins. It is an error to set as default a plugin which was disabled with "disabledAuthenticationPlugins" property. It is an error to set this value to null or the empty string (i.e. there must be at least a valid default authentication plugin specified for the connection, meeting all constraints listed above). com.mysql.jdbc.authentication.MysqlNativePasswordPlugin 5.1.19
disabledAuthenticationPlugins Comma-delimited list of classes implementing com.mysql.jdbc.AuthenticationPlugin or mechanisms, i.e. "mysql_native_password". The authentication plugins or mechanisms listed will not be used for authentication which will fail if it requires one of them. It is an error to disable the default authentication plugin (either the one named by "defaultAuthenticationPlugin" property or the hard-coded one if "defaultAuthenticationPlugin" property is not set). 5.1.19
disconnectOnExpiredPasswords If "disconnectOnExpiredPasswords" is set to "false" and password is expired then server enters "sandbox" mode and sends ERR(08001, ER_MUST_CHANGE_PASSWORD) for all commands that are not needed to set a new password until a new password is set. true 5.1.23
interactiveClient Set the CLIENT_INTERACTIVE flag, which tells MySQL to timeout connections based on INTERACTIVE_TIMEOUT instead of WAIT_TIMEOUT false 3.1.0
localSocketAddress Hostname or IP address given to explicitly configure the interface that the driver will bind the client side of the TCP/IP connection to when connecting. 5.0.5
propertiesTransform An implementation of com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionPropertiesTransform that the driver will use to modify URL properties passed to the driver before attempting a connection 3.1.4
useCompression Use zlib compression when communicating with the server (true/false)?Defaults to 'false'. false 3.0.17

Networking.

Property Name Definition Default Value Since Version
maxAllowedPacket Maximum allowed packet size to send to server. If not set, the value of system variable 'max_allowed_packet' will be used to initialize this upon connecting. This value will not take effect if set larger than the value of 'max_allowed_packet'. -1 5.1.8
tcpKeepAlive If connecting using TCP/IP, should the driver set SO_KEEPALIVE? true 5.0.7
tcpNoDelay If connecting using TCP/IP, should the driver set SO_TCP_NODELAY (disabling the Nagle Algorithm)? true 5.0.7
tcpRcvBuf If connecting using TCP/IP, should the driver set SO_RCV_BUF to the given value? The default value of '0', means use the platform default value for this property) 0 5.0.7
tcpSndBuf If connecting using TCP/IP, should the driver set SO_SND_BUF to the given value? The default value of '0', means use the platform default value for this property) 0 5.0.7
tcpTrafficClass If connecting using TCP/IP, should the driver set traffic class or type-of-service fields ?See the documentation forjava.net.Socket.setTrafficClass() for more information. 0 5.0.7

High Availability and Clustering.

Property Name Definition Default Value Since Version
autoReconnect Should the driver try to re-establish stale and/or dead connections? If enabled the driver will throw an exception for a queries issued on a stale or dead connection, which belong to the current transaction, but will attempt reconnect before the next query issued on the connection in a new transaction. The use of this feature is not recommended, because it has side effects related to session state and data consistency when applications don't handle SQLExceptions properly, and is only designed to be used when you are unable to configure your application to handle SQLExceptions resulting from dead and stale connections properly. Alternatively, as a last option, investigate setting the MySQL server variable "wait_timeout" to a high value, rather than the default of 8 hours. false 1.1
autoReconnectForPools Use a reconnection strategy appropriate for connection pools (defaults to 'false') false 3.1.3
failOverReadOnly When failing over in autoReconnect mode, should the connection be set to 'read-only'? true 3.0.12
maxReconnects Maximum number of reconnects to attempt if autoReconnect is true, default is '3'. 3 1.1
reconnectAtTxEnd If autoReconnect is set to true, should the driver attempt reconnections at the end of every transaction? false 3.0.10
retriesAllDown When using loadbalancing, the number of times the driver should cycle through available hosts, attempting to connect. Between cycles, the driver will pause for 250ms if no servers are available. 120 5.1.6
initialTimeout If autoReconnect is enabled, the initial time to wait between re-connect attempts (in seconds, defaults to '2'). 2 1.1
roundRobinLoadBalance When autoReconnect is enabled, and failoverReadonly is false, should we pick hosts to connect to on a round-robin basis? false 3.1.2
queriesBeforeRetryMaster Number of queries to issue before falling back to master when failed over (when using multi-host failover). Whichever condition is met first, 'queriesBeforeRetryMaster' or 'secondsBeforeRetryMaster' will cause an attempt to be made to reconnect to the master. Defaults to 50. 50 3.0.2
secondsBeforeRetryMaster How long should the driver wait, when failed over, before attempting 30 3.0.2
selfDestructOnPingMaxOperations =If set to a non-zero value, the driver will report close the connection and report failure when Connection.ping() or Connection.isValid(int) is called if the connection's count of commands sent to the server exceeds this value. 0 5.1.6
selfDestructOnPingSecondsLifetime If set to a non-zero value, the driver will report close the connection and report failure when Connection.ping() or Connection.isValid(int) is called if the connection's lifetime exceeds this value. 0 5.1.6
resourceId A globally unique name that identifies the resource that this datasource or connection is connected to, used for XAResource.isSameRM() when the driver can't determinethis value based on hostnames used in the URL 5.0.1

Security.

Property Name Definition Default Value Since Version
allowMultiQueries Allow the use of ';' to delimit multiple queries during one statement (true/false), defaults to 'false', and does not affect the addBatch() and executeBatch() methods, which instead rely on rewriteBatchStatements. false 3.1.1
useSSL Use SSL when communicating with the server (true/false), defaults to 'false' false 3.0.2
requireSSL Require SSL connection if useSSL=true? (defaults to 'false'). false 3.1.0
verifyServerCertificate If "useSSL" is set to "true", should the driver verify the server's certificate? When using this feature, the keystore parameters should be specified by the "clientCertificateKeyStore*" properties, rather than system properties. true 5.1.6
clientCertificateKeyStoreUrl URL to the client certificate KeyStore (if not specified, use defaults) 5.1.0
clientCertificateKeyStoreType KeyStore type for client certificates (NULL or empty means use the default, which is "JKS". Standard keystore types supported by the JVM are "JKS" and "PKCS12", your environment may have more available depending on what security products are installed and available to the JVM. JKS 5.1.0
clientCertificateKeyStorePassword Password for the client certificates KeyStore 5.1.0
trustCertificateKeyStoreUrl URL to the trusted root certificate KeyStore (if not specified, use defaults) 5.1.0
trustCertificateKeyStoreType KeyStore type for trusted root certificates (NULL or empty means use the default, which is "JKS". Standard keystore types supported by the JVM are "JKS" and "PKCS12", your environment may have more available depending on what security products are installed and available to the JVM. JKS 5.1.0
trustCertificateKeyStorePassword Password for the trusted root certificates KeyStore 5.1.0
allowLoadLocalInfile Should the driver allow use of 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE...' (defaults to 'true'). true 3.0.3
allowUrlInLocalInfile Should the driver allow URLs in 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE' statements? false 3.1.4
paranoid Take measures to prevent exposure sensitive information in error messages and clear data structures holding sensitive data when possible? (defaults to 'false') false 3.0.1
passwordCharacterEncoding What character encoding is used for passwords? Leaving this set to the default value (null), uses the platform character set, which works for ISO8859_1 (i.e. "latin1") passwords. For passwords in other character encodings, the encoding will have to be specified with this property, as it'snot possible for the driver to auto-detect this. 5.1.7

Performance Extensions.

Property Name Definition Default Value Since Version
callableStmtCacheSize If 'cacheCallableStmts' is enabled, how many callable statements should be cached? 100 3.1.2
metadataCacheSize The number of queries to cache ResultSetMetadata for if cacheResultSetMetaData is set to 'true' (default 50) 50 3.1.1
useLocalSessionState Should the driver refer to the internal values of autocommit and transaction isolation that are set by Connection.setAutoCommit() and Connection.setTransactionIsolation() and transaction state as maintained by the protocol, rather than querying the database or blindly sending commands to the database for commit() or rollback() method calls? false 3.1.7
useLocalTransactionState Should the driver use the in-transaction state provided by the MySQL protocol to determine if a commit() or rollback() should actually be sent to the database? false 5.1.7
prepStmtCacheSize If prepared statement caching is enabled, how many prepared statements should be cached? 25 3.0.10
prepStmtCacheSqlLimit If prepared statement caching is enabled, what's the largest SQL the driver will cache the parsing for? 256 3.0.10
parseInfoCacheFactory Name of a class implementing com.mysql.jdbc.CacheAdapterFactory, which will be used to create caches for the parsed representation of client-side prepared statements. com.mysql.jdbc.PerConnectionLRUFactory 5.1.1
serverConfigCacheFactory Name of a class implementing com.mysql.jdbc.CacheAdapterFactory<String, Map<String, String>>, which will be used to create caches for MySQL server configuration values com.mysql.jdbc.PerVmServerConfigCacheFactory 5.1.1
alwaysSendSetIsolation Should the driver always communicate with the database when Connection.setTransactionIsolation() is called? If set to false, the driver will only communicate with the database when the requested transaction isolation is different than the whichever is newer, the last value that was set via Connection.setTransactionIsolation(), or the value that was read from the server when the connection was established. Note that useLocalSessionState=true will force the same behavior as alwaysSendSetIsolation=false, regardless of how alwaysSendSetIsolation is set. true 3.1.7
maintainTimeStats Should the driver maintain various internal timers to enable idle time calculations as well as more verbose error messages when the connection to the server fails? Setting this property to false removes at least two calls to System.getCurrentTimeMillis() per query. true 3.1.9
useCursorFetch If connected to MySQL > 5.0.2, and setFetchSize() > 0 on a statement, should that statement use cursor-based fetching to retrieve rows? false 5.0.0
blobSendChunkSize Chunk to use when sending BLOB/CLOBs via ServerPreparedStatements 1048576 3.1.9
cacheCallableStmts Should the driver cache the parsing stage of CallableStatements false 3.1.2
cachePrepStmts Should the driver cache the parsing stage of PreparedStatements of client-side prepared statements, the "check" for suitability of server-side prepared and server-side prepared statements themselves? false 3.0.10
cacheResultSetMetadata Should the driver cache ResultSetMetaData for Statements and PreparedStatements? (Req. JDK-1.4+, true/false, default 'false') false 3.1.1
cacheServerConfiguration Should the driver cache the results of 'SHOW VARIABLES' and 'SHOW COLLATION' on a per-URL basis? false 3.1.5
defaultFetchSize The driver will call setFetchSize(n) with this value on all newly-created Statements 0 3.1.9
dontTrackOpenResources The JDBC specification requires the driver to automatically track and close resources, however if your application doesn't do a good job of explicitly calling close() on statements or result sets, this can cause memory leakage. Setting this property to true relaxes this constraint, and can be more memory efficient for some applications. false 3.1.7
dynamicCalendars Should the driver retrieve the default calendar when required, or cache it per connection/session? false 3.1.5
elideSetAutoCommits If using MySQL-4.1 or newer, should the driver only issue 'set autocommit=n' queries when the server's state doesn't match the requested state by Connection.setAutoCommit(boolean)? false 3.1.3
enableQueryTimeouts When enabled, query timeouts set via Statement.setQueryTimeout() use a shared java.util.Timer instance for scheduling. Even if the timeout doesn't expire before the query is processed, there will be memory used by the TimerTask for the given timeout which won't be reclaimed until the time the timeout would have expired if it hadn't been cancelled by the driver. High-load environments might want to consider disabling this functionality. true 5.0.6
holdResultsOpenOverStatementClose Should the driver close result sets on Statement.close() as required by the JDBC specification? false 3.1.7
largeRowSizeThreshold What size result set row should the JDBC driver consider "large", and thus use a more memory-efficient way of representing the row internally? 2048 5.1.1
loadBalanceStrategy If using a load-balanced connection to connect to SQL nodes in a MySQL Cluster/NDB configuration (by using the URL prefix "jdbc:mysql:loadbalance://"), which load balancing algorithm should the driver use: (1) "random" - the driver will pick a random host for each request. This tends to work better than round-robin, as the randomness will somewhat account for spreading loads where requests vary in response time, while round-robin can sometimes lead to overloaded nodes if there are variations in response times across the workload. (2) "bestResponseTime" - the driver will route the request to the host that had the best response time for the previous transaction. random 5.0.6
locatorFetchBufferSize If 'emulateLocators' is configured to 'true', what size buffer should be used when fetching BLOB data for getBinaryInputStream? 1048576 3.2.1
rewriteBatchedStatements Should the driver use multiqueries (irregardless of the setting of "allowMultiQueries") as well as rewriting of prepared statements for INSERT into multi-value inserts when executeBatch() is called? Notice that this has the potential for SQL injection if using plain java.sql.Statements and your code doesn't sanitize input correctly. Notice that for prepared statements, server-side prepared statements can not currently take advantage of this rewrite option, and that if you don't specify stream lengths when using PreparedStatement.set*Stream(), the driver won't be able to determine the optimum number of parameters per batch and you might receive an error from the driver that the resultant packet is too large. Statement.getGeneratedKeys() for these rewritten statements only works when the entire batch includes INSERT statements. false 3.1.13
useDirectRowUnpack Use newer result set row unpacking code that skips a copy from network buffers to a MySQL packet instance and instead reads directly into the result set row data buffers. true 5.1.1
useDynamicCharsetInfo Should the driver use a per-connection cache of character set information queried from the server when necessary, or use a built-in static mapping that is more efficient, but isn't aware of custom character sets or character sets implemented after the release of the JDBC driver? true 5.0.6
useFastDateParsing Use internal String->Date/Time/Timestamp conversion routines to avoid excessive object creation? true 5.0.5
useFastIntParsing Use internal String->Integer conversion routines to avoid excessive object creation? true 3.1.4
useJvmCharsetConverters Always use the character encoding routines built into the JVM, rather than using lookup tables for single-byte character sets? false 5.0.1
useReadAheadInput Use newer, optimized non-blocking, buffered input stream when readingfrom the server? true 3.1.5

Debugging/Profiling.

Property Name Definition Default Value Since Version
logger The name of a class that implements "com.mysql.jdbc.log.Log" that will be used to log messages to. (default is "com.mysql.jdbc.log.StandardLogger", which logs to STDERR) com.mysql.jdbc.log.StandardLogger 3.1.1
gatherPerfMetrics Should the driver gather performance metrics, and report them via the configured logger every 'reportMetricsIntervalMillis' milliseconds? false 3.1.2
profileSQL Trace queries and their execution/fetch times to the configured logger (true/false) defaults to 'false' false 3.1.0
profileSql Deprecated, use 'profileSQL' instead. Trace queries and their execution/fetch times on STDERR (true/false) defaults to 'false' 2.0.14
reportMetricsIntervalMillis If 'gatherPerfMetrics' is enabled, how often should they be logged (in ms)? 30000 3.1.2
maxQuerySizeToLog Controls the maximum length/size of a query that will get logged when profiling or tracing 2048 3.1.3
packetDebugBufferSize The maximum number of packets to retain when 'enablePacketDebug' is true 20 3.1.3
slowQueryThresholdMillis If 'logSlowQueries' is enabled, how long should a query (in ms) before it is logged as 'slow'? 2000 3.1.2
slowQueryThresholdNanos If 'useNanosForElapsedTime' is set to true, and this property is set to a non-zero value, the driver will use this threshold (in nanosecond units) to determine if a query was slow. 0 5.0.7
useUsageAdvisor Should the driver issue 'usage' warnings advising proper and efficient usage of JDBC and MySQL Connector/J to the log (true/false, defaults to 'false')? false 3.1.1
autoGenerateTestcaseScript Should the driver dump the SQL it is executing, including server-side prepared statements to STDERR? false 3.1.9
autoSlowLog Instead of using slowQueryThreshold* to determine if a query is slow enough to be logged, maintain statistics that allow the driver to determine queries that are outside the 99th percentile? true 5.1.4
clientInfoProvider The name of a class that implements the com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4ClientInfoProvider interface in order to support JDBC-4.0's Connection.get/setClientInfo() methods com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4CommentClientInfoProvider 5.1.0
dumpMetadataOnColumnNotFound Should the driver dump the field-level metadata of a result set into the exception message when ResultSet.findColumn() fails? false 3.1.13
dumpQueriesOnException Should the driver dump the contents of the query sent to the server in the message for SQLExceptions? false 3.1.3
enablePacketDebug When enabled, a ring-buffer of 'packetDebugBufferSize' packets will be kept, and dumped when exceptions are thrown in key areas in the driver's code false 3.1.3
explainSlowQueries If 'logSlowQueries' is enabled, should the driver automatically issue an 'EXPLAIN' on the server and send the results to the configured log at a WARN level? false 3.1.2
includeInnodbStatusInDeadlockExceptions Include the output of "SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS" in exception messages when deadlock exceptions are detected? false 5.0.7
includeThreadDumpInDeadlockExceptions Include a current Java thread dump in exception messages when deadlock exceptions are detected? false 5.1.15
includeThreadNamesAsStatementComment Include the name of the current thread as a comment visible in "SHOW PROCESSLIST", or in Innodb deadlock dumps, useful in correlation with "includeInnodbStatusInDeadlockExceptions=true" and "includeThreadDumpInDeadlockExceptions=true". false 5.1.15
logSlowQueries Should queries that take longer than 'slowQueryThresholdMillis' be logged? false 3.1.2
logXaCommands Should the driver log XA commands sent by MysqlXaConnection to the server, at the DEBUG level of logging? false 5.0.5
profilerEventHandler Name of a class that implements the interface com.mysql.jdbc.profiler.ProfilerEventHandler that will be used to handle profiling/tracing events. com.mysql.jdbc.profiler.LoggingProfilerEventHandler 5.1.6
resultSetSizeThreshold If the usage advisor is enabled, how many rows should a result set contain before the driver warns that it is suspiciously large? 100 5.0.5
traceProtocol Should trace-level network protocol be logged? false 3.1.2
useNanosForElapsedTime For profiling/debugging functionality that measures elapsed time, should the driver try to use nanoseconds resolution ifavailable (JDK >= 1.5)? false 5.0.7

Miscellaneous.

Property Name Definition Default Value Since Version
useUnicode Should the driver use Unicode character encodings when handling strings? Should only be used when the driver can't determine the character set mapping, or you are trying to 'force' the driver to use a character set that MySQL either doesn't natively support (such as UTF-8), true/false, defaults to 'true' true 1.1g
characterEncoding If 'useUnicode' is set to true, what character encoding should the driver use when dealing with strings? (defaults is to 'autodetect') 1.1g
characterSetResults Character set to tell the server to return results as. 3.0.13
connectionAttributes A comma-delimited list of user-defined key:value pairs (in addition to standard MySQL-defined key:value pairs) to be passed to MySQL Server for display as connection attributes in the PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA.SESSION_CONNECT_ATTRS table. Example usage: connectionAttributes=key1:value1,key2:value2 This functionality is available for use with MySQL Server version 5.6 or later only. Earlier versions of MySQL Server do not support connection attributes, causing this configuration option will be ignored. Setting connectionAttributes=none will cause connection attribute processing to be bypassed, for situations where Connection creation/initialization speed is critical. 5.1.25
connectionCollation If set, tells the server to use this collation via 'set collation_connection' 3.0.13
useBlobToStoreUTF8OutsideBMP Tells the driver to treat [MEDIUM/LONG]BLOB columns as [LONG]VARCHAR columns holding text encoded in UTF-8 that has characters outside the BMP (4-byte encodings), which MySQL server can't handle natively. false 5.1.3
utf8OutsideBmpExcludedColumnNamePattern When "useBlobToStoreUTF8OutsideBMP" is set to "true", column names matching the given regex will still be treated as BLOBs unless they match the regex specified for "utf8OutsideBmpIncludedColumnNamePattern". The regex must follow the patterns used for the java.util.regex package. 5.1.3
utf8OutsideBmpIncludedColumnNamePattern Used to specify exclusion rules to "utf8OutsideBmpExcludedColumnNamePattern". The regex must follow the patterns used for the java.util.regex package. 5.1.3
loadBalanceEnableJMX Enables JMX-based management of load-balanced connection groups, including live addition/removal of hosts from load-balancing pool. false 5.1.13
sessionVariables A comma-separated list of name/value pairs to be sent as SET SESSION ... to the server when the driver connects. 3.1.8
useColumnNamesInFindColumn Prior to JDBC-4.0, the JDBC specification had a bug related to what could be given as a "column name" to ResultSet methods like findColumn(), or getters that took a String property. JDBC-4.0 clarified "column name" to mean the label, as given in an "AS" clause and returned by ResultSetMetaData.getColumnLabel(), and if no AS clause, the column name. Setting this property to "true" will give behavior that is congruent to JDBC-3.0 and earlier versions of the JDBC specification, but which because of the specification bug could give unexpected results. This property is preferred over "useOldAliasMetadataBehavior" unless you need the specific behavior that it provides with respect to ResultSetMetadata. false 5.1.7
allowNanAndInf Should the driver allow NaN or +/- INF values in PreparedStatement.setDouble()? false 3.1.5
autoClosePStmtStreams Should the driver automatically call .close() on streams/readers passed as arguments via set*() methods? false 3.1.12
autoDeserialize Should the driver automatically detect and de-serialize objects stored in BLOB fields? false 3.1.5
blobsAreStrings Should the driver always treat BLOBs as Strings - specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for GROUP BY clauses? false 5.0.8
capitalizeTypeNames Capitalize type names in DatabaseMetaData? (usually only useful when using WebObjects, true/false, defaults to 'false') true 2.0.7
clobCharacterEncoding The character encoding to use for sending and retrieving TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT and LONGTEXT values instead of the configured connection characterEncoding 5.0.0
clobberStreamingResults This will cause a 'streaming' ResultSet to be automatically closed, and any outstanding data still streaming from the server to be discarded if another query is executed before all the data has been read from the server. false 3.0.9
compensateOnDuplicateKeyUpdateCounts Should the driver compensate for the update counts of "ON DUPLICATE KEY" INSERT statements (2 = 1, 0 = 1) when using prepared statements? false 5.1.7
continueBatchOnError Should the driver continue processing batch commands if one statement fails. The JDBC spec allows either way (defaults to 'true'). true 3.0.3
createDatabaseIfNotExist Creates the database given in the URL if it doesn't yet exist. Assumes the configured user has permissions to create databases. false 3.1.9
emptyStringsConvertToZero Should the driver allow conversions from empty string fields to numeric values of '0'? true 3.1.8
emulateLocators Should the driver emulate java.sql.Blobs with locators? With this feature enabled, the driver will delay loading the actual Blob data until the one of the retrieval methods (getInputStream(), getBytes(), and so forth) on the blob data stream has been accessed. For this to work, you must use a column alias with the value of the column to the actual name of the Blob. The feature also has the following restrictions: The SELECT that created the result set must reference only one table, the table must have a primary key; the SELECT must alias the original blob column name, specified as a string, to an alternate name; the SELECT must cover all columns that make up the primary key. false 3.1.0
emulateUnsupportedPstmts Should the driver detect prepared statements that are not supported by the server, and replace them with client-side emulated versions? true 3.1.7
exceptionInterceptors Comma-delimited list of classes that implement com.mysql.jdbc.ExceptionInterceptor. These classes will be instantiated one per Connection instance, and all SQLExceptions thrown by the driver will be allowed to be intercepted by these interceptors, in a chained fashion, with the first class listed as the head of the chain. 5.1.8
functionsNeverReturnBlobs Should the driver always treat data from functions returning BLOBs as Strings - specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for GROUP BY clauses? false 5.0.8
generateSimpleParameterMetadata Should the driver generate simplified parameter metadata for PreparedStatements when no metadata is available either because the server couldn't support preparing the statement, or server-side prepared statements are disabled? false 5.0.5
ignoreNonTxTables Ignore non-transactional table warning for rollback? (defaults to 'false'). false 3.0.9
jdbcCompliantTruncation Should the driver throw java.sql.DataTruncation exceptions when data is truncated as is required by the JDBC specification when connected to a server that supports warnings (MySQL 4.1.0 and newer)? This property has no effect if the server sql-mode includes STRICT_TRANS_TABLES. true 3.1.2
loadBalanceAutoCommitStatementRegex When load-balancing is enabled for auto-commit statements (via loadBalanceAutoCommitStatementThreshold), the statement counter will only increment when the SQL matches the regular expression. By default, every statement issued matches. 5.1.15
loadBalanceAutoCommitStatementThreshold When auto-commit is enabled, the number of statements which should be executed before triggering load-balancing to rebalance. Default value of 0 causes load-balanced connections to only rebalance when exceptions are encountered, or auto-commit is disabled and transactions are explicitly committed or rolled back. 0 5.1.15
loadBalanceBlacklistTimeout Time in milliseconds between checks of servers which are unavailable, by controlling how long a server lives in the global blacklist. 0 5.1.0
loadBalanceConnectionGroup Logical group of load-balanced connections within a classloader, used to manage different groups independently. If not specified, live management of load-balanced connections is disabled. 5.1.13
loadBalanceExceptionChecker Fully-qualified class name of custom exception checker. The class must implement com.mysql.jdbc.LoadBalanceExceptionChecker interface, and is used to inspect SQLExceptions and determine whether they should trigger fail-over to another host in a load-balanced deployment. com.mysql.jdbc.StandardLoadBalanceExceptionChecker 5.1.13
loadBalancePingTimeout Time in milliseconds to wait for ping response from each of load-balanced physical connections when using load-balanced Connection. 0 5.1.13
loadBalanceSQLExceptionSubclassFailover Comma-delimited list of classes/interfaces used by default load-balanced exception checker to determine whether a given SQLException should trigger failover. The comparison is done using Class.isInstance(SQLException) using the thrown SQLException. 5.1.13
loadBalanceSQLStateFailover Comma-delimited list of SQLState codes used by default load-balanced exception checker to determine whether a given SQLException should trigger failover. The SQLState of a given SQLException is evaluated to determine whether it begins with any value in the comma-delimited list. 5.1.13
loadBalanceValidateConnectionOnSwapServer Should the load-balanced Connection explicitly check whether the connection is live when swapping to a new physical connection at commit/rollback? false 5.1.13
maxRows The maximum number of rows to return (0, the default means return all rows). -1 all versions
netTimeoutForStreamingResults What value should the driver automatically set the server setting 'net_write_timeout' to when the streaming result sets feature is in use? (value has unit of seconds, the value '0' means the driver will not try and adjust this value) 600 5.1.0
noAccessToProcedureBodies When determining procedure parameter types for CallableStatements, and the connected user can't access procedure bodies through "SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE" or select on mysql.proc should the driver instead create basic metadata (all parameters reported as IN VARCHARs, but allowing registerOutParameter() to be called on them anyway) instead of throwing an exception? false 5.0.3
noDatetimeStringSync Don't ensure that ResultSet.getDatetimeType().toString().equals(ResultSet.getString()) false 3.1.7
noTimezoneConversionForTimeType Don't convert TIME values using the server timezone if 'useTimezone'='true' false 5.0.0
nullCatalogMeansCurrent When DatabaseMetadataMethods ask for a 'catalog' parameter, does the value null mean use the current catalog? (this is not JDBC-compliant, but follows legacy behavior from earlier versions of the driver) true 3.1.8
nullNamePatternMatchesAll Should DatabaseMetaData methods that accept *pattern parameters treat null the same as '%' (this is not JDBC-compliant, however older versions of the driver accepted this departure from the specification) true 3.1.8
overrideSupportsIntegrityEnhancementFacility Should the driver return "true" for DatabaseMetaData.supportsIntegrityEnhancementFacility() even if the database doesn't support it to workaround applications that require this method to return "true" to signal support of foreign keys, even though the SQL specification states that this facility contains much more than just foreign key support (one such application being OpenOffice)? false 3.1.12
padCharsWithSpace If a result set column has the CHAR type and the value does not fill the amount of characters specified in the DDL for the column, should the driver pad the remaining characters with space (for ANSI compliance)? false 5.0.6
pedantic Follow the JDBC spec to the letter. false 3.0.0
pinGlobalTxToPhysicalConnection When using XAConnections, should the driver ensure that operations on a given XID are always routed to the same physical connection? This allows the XAConnection to support "XA START ... JOIN" after "XA END" has been called false 5.0.1
populateInsertRowWithDefaultValues When using ResultSets that are CONCUR_UPDATABLE, should the driver pre-populate the "insert" row with default values from the DDL for the table used in the query so those values are immediately available for ResultSet accessors? This functionality requires a call to the database for metadata each time a result set of this type is created. If disabled (the default), the default values will be populated by the an internal call to refreshRow() which pulls back default values and/or values changed by triggers. false 5.0.5
processEscapeCodesForPrepStmts Should the driver process escape codes in queries that are prepared? true 3.1.12
queryTimeoutKillsConnection If the timeout given in Statement.setQueryTimeout() expires, should the driver forcibly abort the Connection instead of attempting to abort the query? false 5.1.9
relaxAutoCommit If the version of MySQL the driver connects to does not support transactions, still allow calls to commit(), rollback() and setAutoCommit() (true/false, defaults to 'false')? false 2.0.13
retainStatementAfterResultSetClose Should the driver retain the Statement reference in a ResultSet after ResultSet.close() has been called. This is not JDBC-compliant after JDBC-4.0. false 3.1.11
rollbackOnPooledClose Should the driver issue a rollback() when the logical connection in a pool is closed? true 3.0.15
runningCTS13 Enables workarounds for bugs in Sun's JDBC compliance testsuite version 1.3 false 3.1.7
serverTimezone Override detection/mapping of timezone. Used when timezone from server doesn't map to Java timezone 3.0.2
statementInterceptors A comma-delimited list of classes that implement "com.mysql.jdbc.StatementInterceptor" that should be placed "in between" query execution to influence the results. StatementInterceptors are "chainable", the results returned by the "current" interceptor will be passed on to the next in in the chain, from left-to-right order, as specified in this property. 5.1.1
strictFloatingPoint Used only in older versions of compliance test false 3.0.0
strictUpdates Should the driver do strict checking (all primary keys selected) of updatable result sets (true, false, defaults to 'true')? true 3.0.4
tinyInt1isBit Should the driver treat the datatype TINYINT(1) as the BIT type (because the server silently converts BIT -> TINYINT(1) when creating tables)? true 3.0.16
transformedBitIsBoolean If the driver converts TINYINT(1) to a different type, should it use BOOLEAN instead of BIT for future compatibility with MySQL-5.0, as MySQL-5.0 has a BIT type? false 3.1.9
treatUtilDateAsTimestamp Should the driver treat java.util.Date as a TIMESTAMP for the purposes of PreparedStatement.setObject()? true 5.0.5
ultraDevHack Create PreparedStatements for prepareCall() when required, because UltraDev is broken and issues a prepareCall() for _all_ statements? (true/false, defaults to 'false') false 2.0.3
useAffectedRows Don't set the CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS flag when connecting to the server (not JDBC-compliant, will break most applications that rely on "found" rows vs. "affected rows" for DML statements), but does cause "correct" update counts from "INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE" statements to be returned by the server. false 5.1.7
useGmtMillisForDatetimes Convert between session timezone and GMT before creating Date and Timestamp instances (value of "false" is legacy behavior, "true" leads to more JDBC-compliant behavior. false 3.1.12
useHostsInPrivileges Add '@hostname' to users in DatabaseMetaData.getColumn/TablePrivileges() (true/false), defaults to 'true'. true 3.0.2
useInformationSchema When connected to MySQL-5.0.7 or newer, should the driver use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA to derive information used by DatabaseMetaData? false 5.0.0
useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift Should the driver use JDBC-compliant rules when converting TIME/TIMESTAMP/DATETIME values' timezone information for those JDBC arguments which take a java.util.Calendar argument? (Notice that this option is exclusive of the "useTimezone=true" configuration option.) false 5.0.0
useLegacyDatetimeCode Use code for DATE/TIME/DATETIME/TIMESTAMP handling in result sets and statements that consistently handles timezone conversions from client to server and back again, or use the legacy code for these datatypes that has been in the driver for backwards-compatibility? true 5.1.6
useOldAliasMetadataBehavior Should the driver use the legacy behavior for "AS" clauses on columns and tables, and only return aliases (if any) for ResultSetMetaData.getColumnName() or ResultSetMetaData.getTableName() rather than the original column/table name? In 5.0.x, the default value was true. false 5.0.4
useOldUTF8Behavior Use the UTF-8 behavior the driver did when communicating with 4.0 and older servers false 3.1.6
useOnlyServerErrorMessages Don't prepend 'standard' SQLState error messages to error messages returned by the server. true 3.0.15
useSSPSCompatibleTimezoneShift If migrating from an environment that was using server-side prepared statements, and the configuration property "useJDBCCompliantTimeZoneShift" set to "true", use compatible behavior when not using server-side prepared statements when sending TIMESTAMP values to the MySQL server. false 5.0.5
useServerPrepStmts Use server-side prepared statements if the server supports them? false 3.1.0
useSqlStateCodes Use SQL Standard state codes instead of 'legacy' X/Open/SQL state codes (true/false), default is 'true' true 3.1.3
useStreamLengthsInPrepStmts Honor stream length parameter in PreparedStatement/ResultSet.setXXXStream() method calls (true/false, defaults to 'true')? true 3.0.2
useTimezone Convert time/date types between client and server timezones (true/false, defaults to 'false')? false 3.0.2
useUnbufferedInput Don't use BufferedInputStream for reading data from the server true 3.0.11
yearIsDateType Should the JDBC driver treat the MySQL type "YEAR" as a java.sql.Date, or as a SHORT? true 3.1.9
zeroDateTimeBehavior What should happen when the driver encounters DATETIME values that are composed entirely of zeros (used by MySQL to represent invalid dates)? Valid values are "exception", "round"and "convertToNull". exception 3.1.4

Connector/J also supports access to MySQL using named pipes on Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP using the NamedPipeSocketFactory as a plugin-socket factory using the socketFactory property. If you do not use a namedPipePath property, the default of '\\.\pipe\MySQL' is used. If you use the NamedPipeSocketFactory, the host name and port number values in the JDBC url are ignored. To enable this feature, use:

socketFactory=com.mysql.jdbc.NamedPipeSocketFactory

Named pipes only work when connecting to a MySQL server on the same physical machine where the JDBC driver is running. In simple performance tests, named pipe access is between 30%-50% faster than the standard TCP/IP access. However, this varies per system, and named pipes are slower than TCP/IP in many Windows configurations.

To create your own socket factories, follow the example code in com.mysql.jdbc.NamedPipeSocketFactory, or com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.

21.3.5.1.1. Properties Files for the useConfigs Option

The useConfigs connection option is a convenient shorthand for specifying combinations of options for particular scenarios. The argument values you can use with this option correspond to the names of .properties files within the Connector/J mysql-connector-java-version-bin.jar JAR file. For example, the Connector/J 5.1.9 driver includes the following configuration properties files:

$ unzip mysql-connector-java-5.1.19-bin.jar '*/configs/*'Archive:  mysql-connector-java-5.1.19-bin.jar   creating: com/mysql/jdbc/configs/  inflating: com/mysql/jdbc/configs/3-0-Compat.properties    inflating: com/mysql/jdbc/configs/5-0-Compat.properties    inflating: com/mysql/jdbc/configs/clusterBase.properties    inflating: com/mysql/jdbc/configs/coldFusion.properties    inflating: com/mysql/jdbc/configs/fullDebug.properties    inflating: com/mysql/jdbc/configs/maxPerformance.properties    inflating: com/mysql/jdbc/configs/solarisMaxPerformance.properties 

To specify one of these combinations of options, specify useConfigs=3-0-Compat, useConfigs=maxPerformance, and so on. The following sections show the options that are part of each useConfigs setting. For the details of why each one is included, see the comments in the .properties files.

3-0-Compat
emptyStringsConvertToZero=truejdbcCompliantTruncation=falsenoDatetimeStringSync=truenullCatalogMeansCurrent=truenullNamePatternMatchesAll=truetransformedBitIsBoolean=falsedontTrackOpenResources=truezeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNulluseServerPrepStmts=falseautoClosePStmtStreams=trueprocessEscapeCodesForPrepStmts=falseuseFastDateParsing=falsepopulateInsertRowWithDefaultValues=falseuseDirectRowUnpack=false
5-0-Compat
useDirectRowUnpack=false
clusterBase
autoReconnect=truefailOverReadOnly=falseroundRobinLoadBalance=true
coldFusion
useDynamicCharsetInfo=falsealwaysSendSetIsolation=falseuseLocalSessionState=trueautoReconnect=true
fullDebug
profileSQL=truegatherPerMetrics=trueuseUsageAdvisor=truelogSlowQueries=trueexplainSlowQueries=true
maxPerformance
cachePrepStmts=truecacheCallableStmts=truecacheServerConfiguration=trueuseLocalSessionState=trueelideSetAutoCommits=truealwaysSendSetIsolation=falseenableQueryTimeouts=false
solarisMaxPerformance
useUnbufferedInput=falseuseReadAheadInput=falsemaintainTimeStats=false