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Hi, I was looking at the MySQLFetch task today and it seems like it does not allow parameterizing the connection details? That doesn’t seem to allow me to pass a parameter for the db name, or more to the point a secret parameter for the db password

Hi! It appears you are correct. This differs from our postgres task which puts the `password` in the `run` args (<https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/master/src/prefect/tasks/postgres/postgres.py#L157>). This would be a pretty quick fix — if you’re willing to submit a patch that’d be great! Otherwise I’ll open an issue for this. [minor disclaimer this is my first week so there may be a workaround for this that I do not know about!]

Here’s a note to consider updating the example at <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/master/examples/task_library/mysql/mysql_flow.py> to use a parameterized secret