A list of current database connections displays. Click the "Add" button to create a new connection and start the connection wizard. Click the "SQL Native Client" in the list of drivers.

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults.

When creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to make sure your script can successfully connect to the database.

Now that you’ve learned how to set up remote connections for MySQL 8, here’s how you can connect the MySQL database with LibreOffice, DBeaver and Grafana.