Connect parameters for MyODBC

One can specify the following parameters for MyODBC on the [Servername] section of an ODBC.INI file or through the InConnectionString argument in the SQLDriverConnect() call.

ParameterDefault valueComment
user ODBC (on Windows)The username used to connect to MySQL.
server localhostThe hostname of the MySQL server.
database  The default database.
option 0A integer by which you can specify how MyODBC should work. See below.
port 3306The TCP/IP port to use if server is not localhost.
stmt  A statement that will be executed when connecting to MySQL.
password  The password for the serveruser combination.
socket  The socket or Windows pipe to connect to.

The option argument is used to tell MyODBC that the client isn't 100% ODBC compliant. On Windows, one normally sets the option flag by toggling the different options on the connection screen but one can also set this in the option argument. The following options are listed in the same order as they appear in the MyODBC connect screen:

BitDescription
1 The client can't handle that MyODBC returns the real width of a column.
2 The client can't handle that MySQL returns the true value of affected rows. If this flag is set then MySQL returns 'found rows' instead. One must have MySQL 3.21.14 or newer to get this to work.
4 Make a debug log in c:\myodbc.log. This is the same as putting MYSQL_DEBUG=d:t:O,c::\myodbc.log in AUTOEXEC.BAT
8 Don't set any packet limit for results and parameters.
16 Don't prompt for questions even if driver would like to prompt
32 Simulate a ODBC 1.0 driver in some context.
64 Ignore use of database name in 'database.table.column'.
128 Force use of ODBC manager cursors (experimental).
256 Disable the use of extended fetch (experimental).
512 Pad CHAR fields to full column length.
1024 SQLDescribeCol() will return fully qualified column names
2048 Use the compressed server/client protocol
4096 Tell server to ignore space after function name and before '(' (needed by PowerBuilder). This will make all function names keywords!
8192 Connect with named pipes to a mysqld server running on NT.
16384 Change LONGLONG columns to INT columns (some applications can't handle LONGLONG).
32768 Return 'user' as Table_qualifier and Table_owner from SQLTables (experimental)
65536 Read parameters from the client and odbc groups from my.cnf
131072 Add some extra safety checks (should not bee needed but...)

If you want to have many options, you should add the above flags! For example setting option to 12 (4+8) gives you debugging without package limits!

The default MYODBC.DLL is compiled for optimal performance. If you want to debug MyODBC (for example to enable tracing), you should instead use MYODBCD.DLL. To install this file, copy MYODBCD.DLL over the installed MYODBC.DLL file.