Connect to Google Cloud SQL for MySQL

Connect Data Studio to Google Cloud SQL databases.

Cloud SQL is a fully-managed database service that makes it easy to set-up, maintain, manage and administer your relational MySQL databases on Cloud Platform. The Cloud SQL connector allows you to access data from Cloud SQL databases within Data Studio.

In this article:

How to connect to Cloud SQL

A Data Studio data source can connect to a single Cloud SQL database table.

You must have at least cloudsql.client permission in the Cloud SQL project to create the connection. If you don't have this access, you can use the MySQL connector instead.

To connect

  1. Sign in to Data Studio.
  2. In the top left, click Create, then select Data Source.
  3. Select the Cloud SQL connector.
  4. Select a connection option (described below) and provide your connection details.
  5. Configure access to your database using one of the connection options (see below).
  6. Click AUTHENTICATE.
    1. You will see a list of tables in that database.
    2. Select a table.
  7. In the upper right, click CONNECT.
    1. The data source fields panel appears.
    2. The data source is now connected to your data set.

You can now access all of the columns in the table as fields in your reports.

Connection options

BASIC

Connecting with a Cloud SQL instance connection name requires the following information:

  • Instance Connection Name
  • Database
  • Username
  • Password

JDBC URL

To connect via a JDBC URL, provide the following connection information:

  • JDBC URL
    Example

    jdbc:google:mysql://<instance connection name>/<database>
  • Username
  • Password
Get your instance connection name

The instance connection name identifies your instance on the Google Cloud Platform. You can get it from the Cloud Platform Console, or by using the gcloud command-line tool:

gcloud sql instances describe [INSTANCE_NAME]

For example, for the instance myinstance1 in project myproject1, the gcloud output would be:

connectionName: myproject1:us-central1:myinstance1

Custom Query

Select the CUSTOM QUERY option to provide a SQL query instead of connecting to a single table. Data Studio uses this custom SQL as an inner select statement for each generated query to the database.

Special data types

Data Studio will map your table’s column data types to a unified set of Data Studio types. Some database types are currently not supported in Data Studio. When Data Studio encounters a column of a non-supported type, it will not create a field for that column.

Unsupported database types

Data Studio does not support MySQL's Spatial Data Extensions.

Older version migrated to MySQL connector

August 2017: Data sources created using the previous version of the connector have been migrated to the MySQL connector.

The older version of the Cloud SQL connector required you to whitelist a number of IP addresses, and did not provide encrypted connections. The current version of the connector no longer requires whitelisting, and it provides encryption; however, to use these features, you must create a new data source using the Cloud SQL connector.

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