Jmeter: Error while running MySQL DB script

User tries to run a MySQL DB script in Jmeter and receives the below error

Java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/apc

The error message is self explanatory stating that there is no suitable driver for running MySQL script. For the script to run successfully we need to download the MySQL connector jar file and place it under lib folder of Jmeter

For Ex:

If the Jmeter is in C folder we need to place the mysql-connector-java-5.1.37-bin.jar in C:\Program Files\apache-jmeter-2.13\lib

Download link :

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/

and download the Zip file, Extract the file and copy the mysql-connector-java-5.1.37-bin.jar and place it in lib folder of Jmeter