Hi Ulrike,

it seems the Connector/J .jar is not loaded.

What OS do you use? How did you trigger the restart of BaseXGUI after putting mysql-connector-java-5.1.36-bin.jar into the lib folder?

Here is a workflow you can try (using the .zip BaseX distribution and the ./bin/basex startup files):

$ wget http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/BaseX83-20150825.081504.zip $ unzip BaseX83-20150825.081504.zip $ ./basex/bin/basex -q 'sql:init("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver")' Stopped at ., 1/10: [bxerr:BXSQ0007] Could not initialize supplied driver: 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'

Download Platform Independent (Architecture Independent), Compressed TAR Archive 'mysql-connector-java-5.1.36.tar.gz' from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/ $ tar xvjf ~/Downloads/mysql-connector-java-5.1.36.tar.gz . $ cp mysql-connector-java-5.1.36/mysql-connector-java-5.1.36-bin.jar basex/lib $ ./basex/bin/basex -q 'sql:init("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver")' $

All the best Alex

On 31.08.2015, at 09:27, Ulrike Schaper - SideStep Business Solutions GmbH U.Schaper@sidestep-solutions.de wrote:

Hi everybody,

I know, that this issue has been discussed already, but I still have problems concerning BaseX and MySQL:

Of course I read the documentation: I downloaded the Connector/J from the MySQL website and put the .jar file (mysql-connector-java-5.1.36-bin.jar) into the basex/lib folder. I closed and restarted the GUI and tried the following:

import module namespace sql="http://basex.org/modules/sql"; sql:init("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver")

I receive the following error message: [bxerr:BXSQ0007] Could not initialize supplied driver: 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'

Is there something obvious I’m missing?

Best regards, Ulrike.