MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up [duplicate]

Answer 1

This problem occurs when the MySQL service is not running and you're trying to connect to the mysql database.

To resolve this in Windows,

• Start >> type 'services' and open it.

• Find the MySQL service. Probably with name MySQLxx. xx being the version.
  _{eg. MySQL56, MySQL57 etc}

• Start the service and now try to connection to database.