diff --git a/server/src/services/databaseOrm.py b/server/src/services/databaseOrm.py
index 22ac385d2..20a67227d 100644
--- a/server/src/services/databaseOrm.py
+++ b/server/src/services/databaseOrm.py
@@ -43,40 +43,40 @@ class Ingest(Base):
     policeprecinct = Column(String)
 
 
-insertFields = {'srnumber': String,
+insertFields = {'srnumber': String(50),
                 'createddate': DateTime,
                 'updateddate': DateTime,
-                'actiontaken': String,
-                'owner': String,
-                'requesttype': String,
-                'status': String,
-                'requestsource': String,
-                'createdbyuserorganization': String,
-                'mobileos': String,
-                'anonymous': String,
-                'assignto': String,
-                'servicedate': String,
-                'closeddate': String,
-                'addressverified': String,
-                'approximateaddress': String,
-                'address': String,
-                'housenumber': String,
-                'direction': String,
-                'streetname': String,
-                'suffix': String,
+                'actiontaken': String(30),
+                'owner': String(10),
+                'requesttype': String(30),
+                'status': String(20),
+                'requestsource': String(30),
+                'createdbyuserorganization': String(16),
+                'mobileos': String(10),
+                'anonymous': String(10),
+                'assignto': String(20),
+                'servicedate': String(30),
+                'closeddate': String(30),
+                'addressverified': String(16),
+                'approximateaddress': String(20),
+                'address': String(100),
+                'housenumber': String(10),
+                'direction': String(10),
+                'streetname': String(30),
+                'suffix': String(6),
                 'zipcode': Integer,
                 'latitude': Float,
                 'longitude': Float,
-                'location': String,
+                'location': String(100),
                 'tbmpage': Integer,
-                'tbmcolumn': String,
+                'tbmcolumn': String(10),
                 'tbmrow': Float,
-                'apc': String,
+                'apc': String(30),
                 'cd': Float,
-                'cdmember': String,
+                'cdmember': String(30),
                 'nc': Float,
-                'ncname': String,
-                'policeprecinct': String}
+                'ncname': String(100),
+                'policeprecinct': String(30)}
 
 
 readFields = {'SRNumber': str,
diff --git a/server/src/services/sqlIngest.py b/server/src/services/sqlIngest.py
index 2bbd340b9..5462ccf0f 100644
--- a/server/src/services/sqlIngest.py
+++ b/server/src/services/sqlIngest.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 from sodapy import Socrata
 import time
-from . import databaseOrm  # Contains database specs and field definitions
+import databaseOrm  # Contains database specs and field definitions
 
 
 class DataHandler:
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ def __init__(self, config=None, configFilePath=None, separator=','):
         self.fields = databaseOrm.tableFields
         self.insertParams = databaseOrm.insertFields
         self.readParams = databaseOrm.readFields
+        self.dialect = None
 
     def loadConfig(self, configFilePath):
         '''Load and parse config data'''
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ def loadConfig(self, configFilePath):
         config.read(configFilePath)
         self.config = config
         self.dbString = config['Database']['DB_CONNECTION_STRING']
+        self.dialect = self.dbString.split(':')[0]
         self.token = None if config['Socrata']['TOKEN'] == 'None' \
             else config['Socrata']['TOKEN']
 
@@ -84,19 +86,22 @@ def cleanData(self):
 
     def ingestData(self, ingestMethod='replace'):
         '''Set up connection to database'''
-        print('Inserting data into Postgres instance...')
+        asdf = 'Inserting data into ' + self.dialect + ' instance...'
+        print(asdf)
         ingestTimer = time.time()
         data = self.data.copy()  # shard deepcopy for other endpoint operations
         engine = db.create_engine(self.dbString)
         newColumns = [column.replace(' ', '_').lower() for column in data]
         data.columns = newColumns
         # Ingest data
+        # Schema is same as database in MySQL;
+        # schema here is set to db name in connection string
         data.to_sql("ingest_staging_table",
                     engine,
                     if_exists=ingestMethod,
                     schema='public',
                     index=False,
-                    chunksize=10000,
+                    chunksize=10,
                     dtype=self.insertParams)
         print('\tIngest Complete: %.1f minutes' %
               self.elapsedTimer(ingestTimer))
@@ -171,7 +176,7 @@ def populateFullDatabase(self, yearRange=range(2015, 2021)):
            Default operation is to fetch data from 2015-2020
            !!! Be aware that each fresh import will wipe the
            existing staging table'''
-        print('Performing fresh Postgres population from Socrata data sources')
+        print('Performing fresh ' + self.dialect + ' population from Socrata data sources')
         tableInit = False
         globalTimer = time.time()
         for y in yearRange:
@@ -238,11 +243,11 @@ def fix_nan_vals(resultDict):
     '''Class DataHandler workflow from initial load to SQL population'''
     loader = DataHandler()
     loader.loadConfig(configFilePath='../settings.cfg')
-    loader.fetchSocrataFull(limit=10000)
+    loader.fetchSocrataFull()
     loader.cleanData()
     loader.ingestData()
-    loader.saveCsvFile('testfile.csv')
-    loader.dumpFilteredCsvFile(dataset="",
-                               startDate='2018-05-01',
-                               requestType='Bulky Items',
-                               councilName='VOICES OF 90037')
+    # loader.saveCsvFile('testfile.csv')
+    # loader.dumpFilteredCsvFile(dataset="",
+    #                            startDate='2018-05-01',
+    #                            requestType='Bulky Items',
+    #                            councilName='VOICES OF 90037')
diff --git a/server/src/settings.example.cfg b/server/src/settings.example.cfg
index 3cb142558..14ec194c8 100644
--- a/server/src/settings.example.cfg
+++ b/server/src/settings.example.cfg
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ HOST = 0.0.0.0
 PORT = 5000
 
 [Database]
-DB_CONNECTION_STRING = postgres://REDACTED:REDACTED@localhost:5432/postgres
+DB_CONNECTION_STRING = mysql://REDACTED:REDACTED@localhost:5432/public
 DATA_DIRECTORY = static
 
 [Api]