How do I connect Claude to MySQL in 5 minutes?

Execute the following steps to connect Claude to MySQL. You only need knowledge of Claude, your own business and the MySQL administration.

MySQL is a traditional database platform which supports ANSI SQL. MySQL is often used for small web applications.

No technical knowledge is needed nor knowledge on the MySQL APIs to connect MySQL to Claude. This step-by-step plan will tell you exactly which steps you need to go through on Invantive Cloud to create your own Azure data warehouse with data from MySQL.

The steps to connect Claude to MySQL are:

1. Register an Invantive Cloud account.
2. Create a MySQL database.
3. Grant connection from Claude access to MySQL
4. Connect Claude to MySQL through the connector.
5. Ask Claude a question about MySQL

Invantive Cloud offers a MySQL connector to download data from MySQL into Claude, but there are over 110 other connectors available also for SQL, Power BI, Power Query, Qlik, Tableau i Azure Data Factory.

With the MySQL connector for Claude you will by default fetch the data from all connected MySQL companies in your dashboard. You can limit the number of MySQL companies that are retrieved in Claude through the Database settings. For example, you can also limit the connector for Claude to the data from exactly one MySQL company. Of course, you can also filter the data by a specific MySQL company using a filter step in Claude. The MySQL connector for Claude has advanced optimizations for great real-time performance with both a single MySQL company as well as with hundreds of MySQL companies.

When you are having questions, please check the forums for MySQL. Every organisation is entitled to 1 hour of free training to help you get started. This free hour also applies to free plans.

Register Account on Invantive Cloud

Skip this step when you already have an account on Invantive Cloud. Otherwise execute the following steps one time to register an account on Invantive Cloud:

1. Go to Invantive Cloud start page.

2. Select the Log on-button.

3. Select the Sign Up-button.

4. Enter your business email address.

5. Select the Next-button.

6. Enter your personal data.

7. Select the Next-button.

8. Enter your password and repeat the provided password.

9. Select the Next-button.

10. You will receive a six-digit verification code by email within 2 minutes.

11. Enter the six-digit verification code.

12. Select the Sign Up-button.

13. Log on now.

14. Make sure you have an authentication app installed on your phone. Select the Next-button.

15. Add the displayed QR code to the authentication app, enter the current verification code, and choose "Finish".

16. Skip registration of the organisation.

17. Complete your personal data and choose 'Save'.

18. Go to the dashboard.

19. The Invantive Cloud dashboard will be shown.

You now have a login code on Invantive Cloud with which you can set up the connection with MySQL and numerous other platforms. You will use the same Invantive login code and workflow for all other platforms.

Create MySQL database

In this step, we set up a database with data from MySQL. The database is "virtual" because it is not a traditional database, but is fed real-time from MySQL. Invantive Cloud provides Claude with a real-time link to MySQL. The database will be used for all your MySQL reporting with Claude. So you only need to perform these steps once.

1. Click the Add Database button.

2. Select MySQL from the list.

3. Please fill out the form with login information for MySQL.

4. Select the OK-button.

Congratulations! You can now process data from MySQL within the Invantive Cloud website. You can do this for example with the interactive SQL editor.

Grant connection from Claude access to MySQL

To retrieve the data from Claude we create a link via Invantive Bridge Online. This creates a "bridge" between the cloud of Invantive and the standard OData connector that is available in every version of Claude. You do not need to install anything locally: no connector, no ado.NET provider and no Claude add-on neither.

Execute the following steps to safely use the data from MySQL outside of Invantive Cloud:

1. Next to the database you will find an orange text requesting you to allow access from your current location (IP address). Select the nearby orange button.

2. You can completely disable IP address checking by entering an asterisk ("*").

You are now ready to import the MySQL data into Claude.

Configure the MCP connector in Claude for MySQL

In Claude the address of the MCP server is added once as a custom connector, after which the data of MySQL is available in every conversation.

1. In Claude: open Settings and then Connectors, and choose to add a custom connector.

2. Paste the URL address of the MCP server copied in the previous step and confirm.

3. Log on with your Invantive Cloud account and approve the request.

4. Ask a question only your own MySQL data can answer. The connector first reads the data model and then the records the question needs.

What Claude Can and Cannot Do

The connector offers tools such as to describe the data model and read records. There is no tool that writes, posts, deletes or executes SQL, so no instruction in a conversation can change anything in MySQL.

Reading is bounded by the database: platforms not in it and MySQL companies not selected are not reachable.