Include the driver in your imports
-_ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
-Read the documentation
-Determine the Data Source Name
-user:password@tcp(localhost:5555)/dbname?charset=utf8
-Read the documentation on https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql#dsn-data-source-name
Open a connection
*db, err := sql.Open("mysql", "user:password@tcp(localhost:5555)/dbname?charset=utf8")
package sql golang on https://godoc.org/database/sql