How do I connect to a remote heroku db?

Question

Don't have much experience with Heroku. I have the app/db name, username, password, and I have permission to access, but I'm not sure how to connect to it or configure Heroku to keep track of it, like the db's on my other apps.

Thanks!

Answer 1

It's been a while since I've done this so you might need to check that the format hasn't changed but remote databases in heroku are done through environment variables.

Try something like:

heroku config:add DATABASE_URL=mysql://username:password@serveraddress:3306/databasename