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. |
| MaximumColumnSize | The maximum column size. |
| MaxRows | Limits the number of rows returned when no aggregation or GROUP BY is used in the query. This takes precedence over LIMIT clauses. |
| Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
| QueryPassthrough | This option passes the query to the MySQL server as is. |
| Readonly | You can use this property to enforce 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 | The runtime key used for licensing. |
| 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. |
| ZeroDatesToNull | Whether or not to return Date and DateTime values consisting of all zeros as NULL. |