diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4c984d5..8d20580 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@
 members = [
     "schemsearch-cli",
     "schemsearch-lib",
-    "schemsearch-files"
+    "schemsearch-files",
+    "schemsearch-sql"
 ]
diff --git a/schemsearch-sql/Cargo.toml b/schemsearch-sql/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..91129af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/schemsearch-sql/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+[package]
+name = "schemsearch-sql"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2021"
+
+# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
+
+[dependencies]
+sqlx = { version = "0.6", features = [ "runtime-tokio-native-tls" , "mysql" ] }
+tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
+
+schemsearch-lib = { path = "../schemsearch-lib" }
+schemsearch-files = { path = "../schemsearch-files" }
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diff --git a/schemsearch-sql/src/lib.rs b/schemsearch-sql/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ea3bd00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/schemsearch-sql/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+use sqlx::{Executor, MySql, Pool, Row};
+use sqlx::mysql::MySqlPoolOptions;
+
+mod properties;
+
+pub struct SchematicNode {
+    pub id: i32,
+    pub name: String,
+    pub node_owner: i32,
+
+}
+
+pub async fn get_connection() -> Pool<MySql> {
+    let properties = properties::load_mysql_properties();
+    MySqlPoolOptions::new()
+        .max_connections(5)
+        .connect(&format!("mysql://{}:{}@{}/{}", properties.user, properties.password, properties.host, properties.database))
+        .await.expect("Failed to connect to database")
+}
+
+pub async fn load_schematics(conn: &mut Pool<MySql>) -> Vec<SchematicNode> {
+    let mut schematics = Vec::new();
+    let rows = conn.fetch_all("SELECT id, name, node_owner FROM schematics").await.expect("Failed to fetch schematics");
+    for row in rows {
+        schematics.push(SchematicNode {
+            id: row.get(0),
+            name: row.get(1),
+            node_owner: row.get(2),
+        });
+    }
+    schematics
+}
+
+pub async fn load_data(conn: &mut Pool<MySql>, schematic: &SchematicNode) -> Vec<u8> {
+    let rows = conn.fetch_one(sqlx::query("SELECT SchemData FROM NodeData WHERE NodeId = {}").bind(schematic.id)).await.expect("Failed to fetch schematic data");
+    rows.get(0)
+}
+
diff --git a/schemsearch-sql/src/properties.rs b/schemsearch-sql/src/properties.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a152a08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/schemsearch-sql/src/properties.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::fs::read_to_string;
+use std::path::Path;
+
+pub(crate) struct SqlProperties {
+    pub(crate) host: String,
+    pub(crate) user: String,
+    pub(crate) password: String,
+    pub(crate) database: String,
+}
+
+pub(crate) fn load_mysql_properties() -> SqlProperties {
+    let content = read_to_string(Path::new(&std::env::var("HOME").unwrap()).join("mysql.properties")).expect("Failed to read mysql.properties");
+    let mut properties: HashMap<String, String> = HashMap::new();
+
+    for line in content.lines() {
+        let split: Vec<&str> = line.split('=').collect();
+        properties.insert(split[0].to_string(), split[1].to_string());
+    }
+
+    SqlProperties {
+        host: properties.get("host").unwrap().to_string(),
+        user: properties.get("user").unwrap().to_string(),
+        password: properties.get("password").unwrap().to_string(),
+        database: properties.get("database").unwrap().to_string(),
+    }
+}
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