Miscellaneous
This section provides a complete list of the Miscellaneous properties you can configure in the connection settings for this provider.
| Property | Description |
| AllowUserVariables | When set to True, user variables (prefixed by an @) can be used in SQL queries. |
| Characterset | The default client character set used by the provider. For example, 'utf8'. |
| DirectQueryLimit | Limits the number of rows when using the DirectQuery mode. This helps avoid performance issues at design time. |
| EnableForeignKeyDetection | Whether to detect the foreign keys in ODBC. |
| EnsureKeepAlive | When set to True, a COM_PING is sent to check if the server is alive. |
| MaximumColumnSize | The maximum column size. |
| MaxRows | Specifies the maximum rows returned for queries without aggregation or GROUP BY. |
| Other | Specifies additional hidden properties for specific use cases. These are not required for typical provider functionality. Use a semicolon-separated list to define multiple properties. |
| QueryPassthrough | This option passes the query to the MySQL server as is. |
| Readonly | Toggles read-only access to MySQL from the provider. |
| ReturnSchema | When set to False, this will return null for schema when querying getSchemas, getTables, getViews, getProcedures, getColumns, getProcedureParameters or getIndex. |
| RTK | Specifies the runtime key for licensing the provider. If unset or invalid, the provider defaults to the standard licensing method. Use this property only in environments where the standard licensing method is unsupported or requires a runtime key. |
| ServerTimeZone | Specify a specific server time zone id of current platform(.Net or Java) by user. |
| Timeout | The value in seconds until the connection timeout error is thrown. |
| TinyInt1Type | The TinyInt1 Type. |
| ZeroDatesToNull | Whether or not to return Date and DateTime values consisting of all zeros as NULL. |