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Table of Contents

• Install
• Introduction
• Contributors
• Sponsors
• Community
• Establishing connections
• Connection options
• SSL options
• Terminating connections
• Pooling connections
• Pool options
• Pool events
• Closing all the connections in a pool
• PoolCluster
• PoolCluster options
• Switching users and altering connection state
• Server disconnects
• Performing queries
• Escaping query values
• Escaping query identifiers
• Preparing Queries
• Custom format
• Getting the id of an inserted row
• Getting the number of affected rows
• Getting the number of changed rows
• Getting the connection ID
• Executing queries in parallel
• Streaming query rows
• Piping results with Streams
• Multiple statement queries
• Stored procedures
• Joins with overlapping column names
• Transactions
• Ping
• Timeouts
• Error handling
• Exception Safety
• Type casting
• Connection Flags
• Debugging and reporting problems
• Security issues
• Contributing
• Running tests
• Todo

Install

This is a Node.js module available through the npm registry.

Before installing, download and install Node.js. Node.js 0.6 or higher is required.

Installation is done using the npm install command:

$ npm install mysql

For information about the previous 0.9.x releases, visit the v0.9 branch.

Sometimes I may also ask you to install the latest version from Github to check if a bugfix is working. In this case, please do:

$ npm install mysqljs/mysql

Introduction

This is a node.js driver for mysql. It is written in JavaScript, does not require compiling, and is 100% MIT licensed.

Here is an example on how to use it:

var mysql      = require('mysql');
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
  host     : 'localhost',
  user     : 'me',
  password : 'secret',
  database : 'my_db'
});

connection.connect();

connection.query('SELECT 1 + 1 AS solution', function (error, results, fields) {
  if (error) throw error;
  console.log('The solution is: ', results[0].solution);
});

connection.end();

From this example, you can learn the following:

• Every method you invoke on a connection is queued and executed in sequence.
• Closing the connection is done using end() which makes sure all remaining queries are executed before sending a quit packet to the mysql server.

Contributors

Thanks goes to the people who have contributed code to this module, see the GitHub Contributors page.

Additionally I'd like to thank the following people:

• Andrey Hristov (Oracle) - for helping me with protocol questions.
• Ulf Wendel (Oracle) - for helping me with protocol questions.

Sponsors

The following companies have supported this project financially, allowing me to spend more time on it (ordered by time of contribution):

• Transloadit (my startup, we do file uploading & video encoding as a service, check it out)
• Joyent
• pinkbike.com
• Holiday Extras (they are hiring)
• Newscope (they are hiring)

Community

If you'd like to discuss this module, or ask questions about it, please use one of the following:

• Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/node-mysql
• IRC Channel: #node.js (on freenode.net, I pay attention to any message including the term mysql)

Establishing connections

The recommended way to establish a connection is this:

var mysql      = require('mysql');
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
  host     : 'example.org',
  user     : 'bob',
  password : 'secret'
});

connection.connect(function(err) {
  if (err) {
    console.error('error connecting: ' + err.stack);
    return;
  }

  console.log('connected as id ' + connection.threadId);
});

However, a connection can also be implicitly established by invoking a query:

var mysql      = require('mysql');
var connection = mysql.createConnection(...);

connection.query('SELECT 1', function (error, results, fields) {
  if (error) throw error;
  // connected!
});

Depending on how you like to handle your errors, either method may be appropriate. Any type of connection error (handshake or network) is considered a fatal error, see the Error Handling section for more information.

Connection options

When establishing a connection, you can set the following options:

• host: The hostname of the database you are connecting to. (Default: localhost)
• port: The port number to connect to. (Default: 3306)
• localAddress: The source IP address to use for TCP connection. (Optional)
• socketPath: The path to a unix domain socket to connect to. When used host and port are ignored.
• user: The MySQL user to authenticate as.
• password: The password of that MySQL user.
• database: Name of the database to use for this connection (Optional).
• charset: The charset for the connection. This is called "collation" in the SQL-level of MySQL (like utf8_general_ci). If a SQL-level charset is specified (like utf8mb4) then the default collation for that charset is used. (Default: 'UTF8_GENERAL_CI')
• timezone: The timezone configured on the MySQL server. This is used to type cast server date/time values to JavaScript Date object and vice versa. This can be 'local', 'Z', or an offset in the form +HH:MM or -HH:MM. (Default: 'local')
• connectTimeout: The milliseconds before a timeout occurs during the initial connection to the MySQL server. (Default: 10000)
• stringifyObjects: Stringify objects instead of converting to values. See issue #501. (Default: false)
• insecureAuth: Allow connecting to MySQL instances that ask for the old (insecure) authentication method. (Default: false)
• typeCast: Determines if column values should be converted to native JavaScript types. (Default: true)
• queryFormat: A custom query format function. See Custom format.
• supportBigNumbers: When dealing with big numbers (BIGINT and DECIMAL columns) in the database, you should enable this