Configuring Oracle SQL Developer for MySQL

Description: This demonstrates how to access your MySQL database from Oracle SQL Developer, which is a database client. This requires having the MySQL driver and configuring Oracle SQL Developer to point to that driver.

Download the MySQL driver at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j.
Unzip and place the contents into any directory you want.
Start SQL Developer and navigate to Tools -> Preferences.

On the Preferences section, navigate to Database -> Third Party JDBC Driver. Add an entry and select the "mysql-connector-java" jar file, which is located inside the folder you've unzipped.

Now you will be able to connect to your MySQL server.