The CData ODBC Driver for MySQL is a standards-based ODBC driver with editions for Windows and Linux operating systems. The following sections show how to create an ODBC data source and query data.

Creating a DSN on Your Platform

The following guides show how to use the standard tools to configure data source names (DSN).

• Windows

  Windows DSN Configuration shows how to configure a DSN with the Microsoft ODBC Administrator tool.

• Linux

  Linux DSN Configuration shows how to configure DSNs with several major driver managers on Linux.

MySQL Version Support

The driver enables connectivity to MySQL Server 5.0 or later. This driver supports connections to cloud-hosted instances of MySQL, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, as well as instances hosted in data warehouses, like Apache Doris.

See Also

See the following sections to connect to the DSN from tools and from code:

• Using from Tools: Connect to the DSN from various tools on different platforms.
• Using ODBC: Connect to the DSN using the native ODBC API.
• Create a Linked Server: Connect to the DSN as a remote SQL Server database.
• MySQL Remoting: Connect to the DSN over the MySQL protocol.