Establish a connection between compatible programs on your PC and a MySQL database of your choice. Manually or automatically define a set of function calls, error codes and data types used in order to develop database-independent programs, and save the settings.
MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.5 provides a fast and reliable way for connecting with a MySQL database server via ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity, a standard method to connect a DBMS - DataBase Management System - with the database server).
ODBC is a standard implementation created by Microsoft Corporation, which is aimed at making it independent from database systems and programming languages or products, and at running in any operating system. Sun Microsystems has a similar implementation for Java called JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity).
For example, with the MySQL Connector for ODBC you can use Microsoft Excel to query the MySQL server and retrieve the necessary data to populate a spreadsheet, or to build a dynamic table. To do this, first you need to configure a DSN (data source name) in the Windows Control Panel, under the "Data Sources (ODBC)" section.
When adding a new DSN, you must specify the connection parameters, like host, user, password, default database to use, and other connection properties.
v5.3.6 [Apr 22, 2014]
-Security Fix: The linked OpenSSL library for Connector/ODBC Commercial 5.3.6 has been updated from version 1.0.1m to version 1.0.1q. Versions of OpenSSL prior to 1.0.1q are reported to be vulnerable to CVE-2015-3195.
- Two new option parameters, DISABLE_SSL_DEFAULT and SSL_ENFORCE, have been introduced for specifying whether the default requirement to use SSL connections is to be followed. See Connector/ODBC Option Parameters for details.
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