What protocol is used to connect to a database?

Do databases use TCP?

HTTP is an application level protocol and usually uses TCP/IP as underlying transport protocol, so even databases like CouchDB that use HTTP also use TCP/IP .

What protocol is used to connect to MySQL?

For programs that use the MySQL client library (for example, mysql and mysqldump), MySQL supports connections to the server based on several transport protocols: TCP/IP, Unix socket file, named pipe, and shared memory.

How do you connect to a database?

Complete the following steps to create a database connection from the home page:1Click the Connections tab .2Click New connection and choose Database from the menu. The New connection window appears.3Choose the database type you want to connect to. ... 4Provide the connection properties for your database. ... 5Click Add.Create a database connection—ArcGIS Insights

Are database connections HTTP?

Officially, the portion of the database connection URL called the protocol is jdbc:, just as http:// is a protocol in Web URLs. However, the second portion of the database connection URL (everything between jdbc: and databaseName), which is called the subprotocol, is informally considered part of the protocol.