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title: "Database Connection"
slug: "database-connection"
updated: 2025-11-07T15:49:13Z
published: 2025-11-07T15:49:13Z
canonical: "help.csgi.com/database-connection"
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# Database Connection

A [Database adaptor](/v1/docs/database-adaptor) uses this connection.

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- **Database Type**
  - Postgres SQL version 9. X - includes Amazon Web Services Aurora
  - MySQL version 5.6 and above - includes Amazon Web Services Aurora
  - MSSQL - Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and above - includes SQL Azure
  - Oracle - 10i and above
- **User Name**
  - Name of the user to login to the database
  - Note for SQL Server on Azure, the username is user@server - where 'server' is the first part of the fully qualified domain name for the database
  - e.g. if the server is kwdb.database.windows.net and the user is kwheel, then the username should be kwheel@kwdb
- **Password**
  - Password of the user to login to the database
- **Host Name**
  - Physical hostname (IP address or fully qualified domain name) of the database server or name of the load balancer (Oracle)
- **Port**
  - The port on which the database is listening for connections. The default ports for the supported databases are:
    - Postgres - 5432
    - MySQL - 3306
    - MSSQL - 1433
    - Oracle - 1521
- **Database Name**
  - The name of the default database/schema to be connected to

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## Related Pages

- [Connections](/v1/docs/connections)
- [Database Read Adaptor](/v1/docs/database-read-adaptor)
- [Database Write Adaptor](/v1/docs/database-write-adaptor)
- [Database Listener](/v1/docs/database-listener)