Hi, I tried to connect from Excel VBA to MySQL db, namely: csproject_db. My account is on Stevie. Can someone please kindly help me if the server name: stevie.heliohost.org is correct? the username and password are from cPanel login. However, the database has also been assigned a Privileged User as csprojec_admin and password. cn.ConnectionString = "Provider=MSDASQL;" & _ "Driver={MySQL ODBC 5.2 ANSI Driver};" & _ "Server=stevie.heliohost.org;" & _ "Database=csprojec_db;" & _ "User=csprojec;" & _ "Password = --------;" & _ "Port = 3306" & _ "Option = 3" VBA: The Run time error gave me "can't connect to MySQL server on Stevie.heliohost.org" Thanks a lot csprojec_admin Sorry. I used the website name "csproject.heliohost.org" and it works. cn.ConnectionString = "Provider=MSDASQL;" & _ "Driver={MySQL ODBC 5.2 ANSI Driver};" & _ "Server=csproject.heliohost.org;" & _ "Database=csprojec_db;" & _ "User=csprojec;" & _ "Password = --------;" & _ "Port = 3306"Thanks