Pentaho Data Integration SQL connection
mysql, pentaho
Solution
Turns out I will missing a class called mysql-connector-java-5.1.2.jar, I added it this folder (C:\Program Files\pentaho\design-tools\data-integration\lib) and it worked with a MySQL connection and my data and tables appear.
Problem
I am using Pentaho Data Integration and I am trying to connect to my database via MySQL but when I do I get this error..... ``` Error connecting to database [devdb2] : org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: Error occured while trying to connect to the database Exception while loading class org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: Error occured while trying to connect to the database Exception while loading class org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.normalConnect(Database.java:368) at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connect(Database.java:317) at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connect(Database.java:279) at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connect(Database.java:269) at org.pentaho.di.core.database.DatabaseFactory.getConnectionTestReport(DatabaseFactory.java:86) at org.pentaho.di.core.database.DatabaseMeta.testConnection(DatabaseMeta.java:2464) at org.pentaho.ui.database.event.DataHandler.testDatabaseConnection(DataHandler.java:533) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor55.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.pentaho.ui.xul.impl.AbstractXulDomContainer.invoke(AbstractXulDomContainer.java:329) at org.pentaho.ui.xul.impl.AbstractXulComponent.invoke(AbstractXulComponent.java:139) at org.pentaho.ui.xul.impl.AbstractXulComponent.invoke(AbstractXulComponent.java:123) at org.pentaho.ui.xul.swt.tags.SwtButton.access$500(SwtButton.java:26) at org.pentaho.ui.xul.swt.tags.SwtButton$4.widgetSelected(SwtButton.java:119) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.runEventLoop(Window.java:820) at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:796) at org.pentaho.ui.xul.swt.tags.SwtDialog.show(SwtDialog.java:378) at org.pentaho.ui.xul.swt.tags.SwtDialog.show(SwtDialog.java:304) at org.pentaho.di.ui.core.database.dialog.XulDatabaseDialog.open(XulDatabaseDialog.java:115) at org.pentaho.di.ui.core.database.dialog.DatabaseDialog.open(DatabaseDialog.java:62) at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.delegates.SpoonDBDelegate.newConnection(SpoonDBDelegate.java:493) at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.delegates.SpoonDBDelegate.newConnection(SpoonDBDelegate.java:478) at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.newConnection(Spoon.java:7770) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.pentaho.ui.xul.impl.AbstractXulDomContainer.invoke(AbstractXulDomContainer.java:329) at org.pentaho.ui.xul.impl.AbstractXulComponent.invoke(AbstractXulComponent.java:139) at org.pentaho.ui.xul.impl.AbstractXulComponent.invoke(AbstractXulComponent.java:123) at org.pentaho.ui.xul.swt.tags.SwtMenuitem.access$100(SwtMenuitem.java:27) at org.pentaho.ui.xul.swt.tags.SwtMenuitem$1.widgetSelected(SwtMenuitem.java:77) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Unknown Source) at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.readAndDispatch(Spoon.java:1183) at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.start(Spoon.java:6966) at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.main(Spoon.java:567) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.pentaho.commons.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:134) Caused by: org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: Exception while loading class org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connectUsingClass(Database.java:423) at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.normalConnect(Database.java:352) ... 50 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source) at org.pentaho.di.core.database.Database.connectUsingClass(Database.java:414) ... 51 more ``` If I used SQLite as my Connection Type it works but no data is returned when I goto explore it. So my question is how do I get MySQL working or get the data using SQLite? Am I missing a library or a class?