  | | | MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.3has been released | MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.3has been released 2006-06-20 - By Mark Matthews
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MySQL Connector/ODBC v5.0 Alpha 3 (with Milestone 3 complete) has been released. Notice that there is no public release of a 5.0.2, we're now synchronizing the minor version numbers with the internal DLL version numbers of the driver.
The short term plan is to have C/ODBC v5 support all major features of the existing C/ODBC v3 driver as well as flagship MySQL-5 (See http://SQL-5.ora-code.com).0 features including stored procedures and views.
Installation -- ---- -----
1) Install the latest myodbc v3 (to get the setup library) if you haven't already from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/3.51.html 2) Unzip the archive containing Connector/ODBC 5.0 (if you're reading this file from the archive, then you've already done this). 3) From a shell and in the base subdirectory of the Connector/ODBC 5.0 directory created when you unzipped the archive, do the following:
C:...> install 0
(if you're upgrading from the previous Connector/ODBC 5.0 release, instead run "Upgrade.bat")
This should register the driver (using the MyODBC v3 setup library) and copy the driver to windows\system32
4) Then create a DSN (the Test connection button may not work) using defaults for everything except; host, id, pwd, db
Current State of Implementation -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- The driver is Unicode-aware (this is what we'd like to see tested most with this release)
The driver will not work with ADO or complex applications such as Microsoft Office at this time, but should do so by Milestone 5.
This release is designed to be used with a custom application that uses the ODBC API directly.
Basic testing has been done with an emphasis on having MYODBCShell.exe working (see the ?bin? directory for the executable or the sources for MYODBCShell in the ?MYODBCShell? to see what features are currently known to be working).
This release of the driver must be used with a Driver Manager, but by final release the driver can be linked directly into your application if it does not use a Driver Manager.
The following ODBC API functions are implemented (basically everything to execute prepared and non-prepared statements without bound columns):
SQLAllocHandle SQLBindParameter (new in this release) SQLBindCol (new in this release) SQLCloseCursor SQLColAttribute SQLColumns SQLConnect SQLCopyDesc SQLDisconnect SQLExecDirect SQLExecute SQLFetch SQLFreeHandle SQLFreeStmt SQLGetConnectAttr SQLGetData SQLGetDescField SQLGetDescRec SQLGetDiagField SQLGetDiagRec SQLGetEnvAttr SQLGetFunctions SQLGetStmtAttr SQLGetTypeInfo SQLNumResultCols SQLPrepare SQLRowcount SQLSetConnectAttr (*) SQLSetDescField (*) SQLSetDescRec (*) SQLSetEnvAttr (*) SQLSetStmtAttr (*) SQLTables
(*) some (perhaps quite a few) attributes/options may not be used at this time
Reporting Bugs with this Release Please report bugs you find with this release at http://bugs.mysql.com/
For more expedient processing of your Connector/ODBC 5.0 bugs, please make sure to record the version number with a ?5.0? in it so that we find them quicker when putting together fix lists.
Notice that if a bug is caused by missing functionality, we will defer processing it until that functionality has been implemented. However, if you find bugs with the functionality listed above, then we?ll be working to address those issues in the next milestone release (if possible).
Roadmap for Future Releases - -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
We're aiming at having a milestone release every week or so for the next 4 weeks. During this time the following milestones are to be met:
Milestone 3 (now completed with Alpha 3) -- ---- ---
This release will see the following features completed for community testing;
- Remaining C data conversion - Binding columns - Binding parameters
Milestone 4 -- ---- --- We plan that this release will see the following features completed for community testing;
- The GUI for configuration of DSNs - SQLDriverConnect - Basic stored procedure execution
Milestone 5 -- ---- --- We plan that this release will see the following features completed for community testing;
- Adding Windows x86_64 platform support - Yet to be decided (based upon feedback from the community, but we're assuming this is where we start to add more builds on Unix-like platforms). -- --BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-- -- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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