OpenSQLConnection[JDBC["MySQL(Connector/J)",
                       "jdbc:mysql://localhost/MedusaTrials"],
                  "Username"->"root"]

JDBC::error: Communications link failure

The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server. >>

sqlalchemy.create_engine("mysql://root@localhost/test")

OpenSQLConnection[]

ps -ef | grep mysqld