{"id":278,"date":"2013-07-09T16:26:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2013-07-09T16:26:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:26:50","slug":"mysql-connectivity-issues-with-spoon-4-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/mysql-connectivity-issues-with-spoon-4-4-1\/","title":{"rendered":"MySQL Connectivity Issues with Spoon 4.4.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently installed Pentaho DI 4.4.1. I was previously using PDI 3.2. Transferring my ETL&#8217;s to the new PDI installation resulted in this error message (truncated).<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nError connecting to database [mysql] : org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: \r\nError occured while trying to connect to the database \r\n\r\nException while loading class \r\norg.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver \r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Digging around, the full error can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jira.pentaho.com\/browse\/PDI-8108\" title=\"Exception while loading class mysql.Driver\" target=\"_blank\">Exception while loading class mysql.Driver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The answer is provided in the Jira ticket. You need to download and install the MySQL JDBC connector which can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/downloads\/connector\/j\/\" title=\"Download Connector\/J\" target=\"_blank\">Download Connector\/J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am using the Windows x64 version so I had to place the jar file here: <em>C:\\Program Files\\pentaho\\design-tools\\data-integration\\libext<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now I am able to connect to MySQL.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pentaho, they can no longer include the MySQL JDBC connector as it is not compatible with the Apache 4.3 license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently installed Pentaho DI 4.4.1. I was previously using PDI 3.2. Transferring my ETL&#8217;s to the new PDI installation resulted in this error message (truncated). Error connecting to database [mysql] : org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleDatabaseException: Error occured while trying to connect to the database Exception while loading class org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver Digging around, the full error can be found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[162,161,160],"tags":[167,168,165,164,163,166],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etl","category-pdi","category-pentaho","tag-etl-2","tag-java","tag-kettle","tag-pdi-2","tag-pentaho-2","tag-spoon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fcrv-4u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}