MySQL provides standards based ODBC drivers for all programmers to enable the database call to the MySQL database from their programming code. A set of C library functions allow programmers to embed MySQL database calls into their code.

There is a list of MySQL ODBC driver developed by MySQL for each language platforms. They are

1) ADO .NET Driver for MySQL (Connector/.Net)
2) ODBC Driver for MySQL (Connector/ODBC)
3) JDBC Driver for MySQL (Connector/JDBC)
4) MXJ Driver for MySQL (Connector/MXJ)
5) C++ Driver for MySQL (Connector/C++)
6) C Driver for MySQL (Connector/C)
7) C APO for MySQL (mysqlclient)

There is another list of MySQL drivers developed by developer communities, they are
1) Perl ODBC driver for MySQL
2) Python ODBC driver for MySQL
3) PHP drivers for MySQL
4) Ruby drivers for MySQL

MySQL Connector or MySQL ODBC is the official MySQL ODBC driver. To download the latest MySQL ODBC drivers please visit here. Please select the driver suitable for your operating system when you choose your driver to be downloaded. Open Link software provides MySQL ODBC drivers for single tier database implementation as well as multi tier database implementation systems.

Requirements for a MySQL ODBC driver to work successfully:
We should get Microsoft MDAC components installed; we should know the connection details like user name, password, server name where the MySQL DBMS system is installed and the MySQL ODBC driver for the right operating system on your client system. Follow the same steps as discussed in the earlier post to set up a DSN connection using a ODBC We could create a connection using the MySQL ODBC driver to the MYSQL database server and start sending database calls from the client application running on your machine.

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