Applications such as Filemaker Pro, Microsoft office and ColdFusion require ODBC for communication with MySQL.
#Mysql driver windows mac os
Sometimes, the application that you are using on Linux/Unix or Mac os demands the usage of the ODBC interface to communicate with the database, at that time it is required to install the MySQL ODBC driver on that platforms too. While using the Mac or Linux/Unix platform, named pipes of native MySQL network can be used for communication between the applications and MySQL database. When we use the Windows platform on our machine, we need to install the ODBC driver to connect to MySQL from a certain application. If we use an ODBC driver with a 5.1 or higher version, we also get complete Unicode compliance with MySQL. This driver provides complete support for all the MySQL functionalities such as transaction and stored procedures. We can use the native interface of driver-manager based interfaces to connect to the MySQL database when we use the MySQL ODBC driver. ODBC 8.0 comes with the facility of having Unicode and ANSI driver. MySQL ODBC driver is responsible for making it possible to access the MySQL database with the help of open database connectivity API (ODBC API). MySQL ODBC drivers were called as myODBC drivers in the early days. ODBC or MySQL connector represents the collection of the MySQL ODBC drivers.
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