MySQL documentation major improvements (#107690)

* added keywords and fixed description

* Update (dateColumn) description

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* Mount docs from the current repository

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* Clean up variables

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* Improve timeFilter and timeGroup macro description

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* Fix timefilter macro example formatting

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* Fix time macro example formatting

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* Remove extra spaces from timefilter macro example

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* Introduce new table and Add examples for time, timeFilter and timeGroup Macros

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* Improve existing examples of timeGroupAlias Macro

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* Remove data frame description

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* fixed the homepage with valid links

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* Add Table Panel results for Macros

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* fixed and define the configuration part for grafana mysql user

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* fixed port typo

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* remove the sqlDatasourceDatabaseSelection based https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/105232

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* added annotation single tag example

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* Change format type

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* fix minor typos and run prettier

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* Address Macros specific changes

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* Revert column name and replace URL with version substitution

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* re-added the text for the feature flag

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* revert back the changes for the grafana mysql usage

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* fixed links as per writers toolkit guide

* run prettier

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* Update docs/sources/datasources/mysql/query-editor/_index.md

thanks

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Signed-off-by: Usman Ahmad <usman.ahmad@grafana.com>
Co-authored-by: Sheikh-Abubaker <sheikhabubaker761@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com>
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aliases:
- ../data-sources/mysql/
- ../features/datasources/mysql/
description: introduction to the MySQL data source in Grafana
description: Introduction to the MySQL data source in Grafana
keywords:
- grafana
- mysql
- data source
- guide
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products:
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# MySQL data source
Grafana ships with a built-in MySQL data source plugin that allows you to query and visualize data from a MySQL-compatible database like MariaDB or Percona Server. You don't need to install a plugin in order to add the MySQL data source to your Grafana instance.
Grafana ships with a built-in MySQL data source plugin that allows you to query and visualize data from a MySQL-compatible database like [MariaDB](https://mariadb.org/) or [Percona Server](https://www.percona.com/). You don't need to install a plugin in order to add the MySQL data source to your Grafana instance.
Grafana offers several configuration options for this data source as well as a visual and code-based query editor.