# 🛢️MySQL Connection String
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Creating your connection string:
1. **Visit the MySQL String Generator Website:** [Here](https://brouznouf.github.io/fivem-mysql-async/)
2. Click `Next` twice until you are on `3: Configure the FXServer`.
3. **After you are on the 3rd page, scroll down until you see this:**
4. **The following information will be required for your connection string to work:** (Some other things you can add will be: **acquireTimeout** and **connectTimeout** - These will make the string take longer before connecting / pushing an error.)
* User
* database
* host
* password
Password only required if you created with a password
5. **After filling out the info regarding your database and you should see a section called `FXServer Configuration`**
6. **Copy the line shown below from the website and paste it into your server.cfg and restart your server**
## Ensuring oxmysql or mysql-async
Whether you use [oxmysql ](https://github.com/overextended/oxmysql)or [mysql-async](https://github.com/brouznouf/fivem-mysql-async) the way you ensure the it matters.
1. Put the following lines of code into your server.cfg below all the default resources required by FiveM.
```lua
set mysql_connection_string "host=localhost;user=root;database=fivem"
ensure mysql-async -- Only if using mysql-async
ensure oxmysql -- Only if using oxmysql
```
Congratulations, you connected your database to your FiveM Server!
