Easysoft ODBC-MySQL Driver User's Guide - Introduction

Introducing the Easysoft ODBC-MySQL Driver

The Easysoft ODBC-MySQL Driver is an ODBC 3.52 driver for MySQL. It lets ODBC-enabled applications access MySQL databases from Linux, Unix and Windows platforms.

Chapter Guide

Overview

The Easysoft ODBC-MySQL Driver connects ODBC-enabled applications on Linux, Unix and Windows to MySQL databases. For example, access MySQL databases from Apache, ApplixWare, Informatica, Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org and StarOffice. In addition, the Easysoft ODBC-MySQL Driver supports the Perl DBI and DBD::ODBC modules, PHP, PEAR DB, the Python pyodbc and mxODBC interfaces, C and any other ODBC-enabled programming language or interface.

Product Status

The Easysoft ODBC-MySQL Driver is currently available on Unix, Linux and Windows platforms. The most up to date list of Easysoft ODBC-MySQL Driver platforms is available at:

http://www.easysoft.com/products/data_access/odbc-mysql-driver/index.html

Software problems can be reported to support@easysoft.com by users who have either purchased support or registered at the Easysoft web site at http://www.easysoft.comand are evaluating Easysoft products.

Deployment

The Easysoft ODBC-MySQL Driver uses the MySQL protocol to communicate with MySQL. No additional software needs to be installed on the client machine or the MySQL machine.