How to add MySQL JDBC driver in Spring Boot?
In brief, we can say that such an error occurs when no JDBC JAR file is added to the classpath of Java. Just we need to add the JAR file to the classpath and then execute the code. The code will hopefully get executed with success.
How to load driver class in JDBC for MySQL?
After extracting the distribution archive, you can install the driver by placing MySQL-connector-java-version-bin. jar in your classpath, either by adding the full path to it to your classpath environment variable or by directly specifying it with the command line switch -cp when starting the JVM.