MySQL connection error "Could not create connection to database server"

Trying to connect to a MySQL database using the following code:

connS=database(dbname,user,pswd,'Vendor','MySQL','Server','XXX.XXX.X.XXX','PortNumber', 3306);

Receive error:

"Could not create connection to database server."

This error is not noted in https://www.mathworks.com/help/database/ug/database-connection-error-messages.html with regards to how to resolve it or what the potential issue is. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

[Allan Brett]

Resolved my own issue. This error appears when you are trying to connect to a MySQL database server 8.0 with an incompatible version of Matlab, in this case R2016b. Once I updated Matlab I was able to connect