Installing the Windows Connector/ODBC Driver: The source installation method is important where you want to customize or modifies the installation process or for those platforms where a binary installation package is not available.
The binary method is easy which is a bundle of necessary libraries and other files pre-built, with an installer program. You can install the Connector/ODBC drivers using two different methods, binary installation or source installation.
You can download the latest version of Connector/ODBC binaries and sources from the following website : Download the latest version from Microsoft Download Center. Make sure you have the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package installed on your system.Download the latest version from Microsoft Data Access and Storage. Make sure your Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) are up to date.The following section describes how to install, configure, and develop database applications using MySQL Connector/ODBC in Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix platformsīefore installing the Connector/ODBC drivers on Windows :
MySQL Connector/ODBC provides both driver-manager based and native interfaces to the MySQL database, with the full support of MySQL functionality, including stored procedures, transactions and, with Connector/ODBC 5.1 and higher, full Unicode compliance. MySQL ODBC drivers provide access to a MySQL database in a heterogeneous environment using the industry standard Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) API.
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