ColdFusion · Database exception
What does No Suitable Driver Found mean in ColdFusion?
ColdFusion 11 and later no longer bundle the MySQL JDBC driver because Adobe dropped it over licensing terms on the connector jar, so any MySQL datasource fails to load a driver class at connection time even though the datasource configuration looks correct. The same failure mode applies to any datasource pointed at a database whose driver jar isn't present in ColdFusion's lib directory.
ColdFusion 11 and later no longer bundle the MySQL JDBC driver because Adobe dropped it over licensing terms on the connector jar, so any MySQL datasource fails to load a driver class at connection time even though the datasource configuration looks correct. The same failure mode applies to any datasource pointed at a database whose driver jar isn't present in ColdFusion's lib directory.
Download MySQL Connector/J directly from MySQL, drop the jar into {cf_root}/cfusion/lib, and restart ColdFusion so the driver registers before re-verifying the datasource.