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 ### VS Code ###
 .vscode/
 
+src/main/resources/application.properties
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-server.port=8080
-spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/projectionapi?useUnicode=true&useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift=true&useLegacyDatetimeCode=false&serverTimezone=UTC
-spring.datasource.username=root
-spring.datasource.password=root
-spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
-spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver
-spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect
-
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+# Application properties 
+
+Create the Schema in MySQL Workbench named `projectionapi`.  
+Then create the `application.properties` inside `src/main/resources` file with this lines:
+
+
+`server.port=8080`
+`spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/projectionapi?useUnicode=true&useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift=true&useLegacyDatetimeCode=false&serverTimezone=UTC`  
+`spring.datasource.username=YOUR_DB_USERNAME`  
+`spring.datasource.password=YOUR_DB_PASSWORD`  
+`spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update`  
+`spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver`  
+`spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect`
+  
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