About the MariaDB ODBC Driver

Obtaining the Driver

The driver is available for download from https://downloads.mariadb.org/driver-odbc/

You may install both 32-bit and 64-bit driver. Otherwise you may get this error message: “[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] The specified DSN contains an architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application.“

Source code

The source code is available on Launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/mariadb-odbc-driver

Connection parameters

When configuring a DSN you can use the following keywords:

• DSN: Name of the DSN
• Driver: The name of the MariaDB ODBC Driver. Must be always {MariaDB ODBC 1.0 Driver}
• Server: name or IP of the MariaDB database server. Aliases: Servername
• User: user name for database authentication. Aliases: UID,
• Password: password for database authentication. Aliases: PWD
• Database: default database. Aliases: DB
• Port: TCP/IP Port of the database server
• Option: For MySQL Connector/ODBC compatibility. Aliases: Options

Example

  SQLWCHAR *ConnStr= L"Driver={MariaDB ODBC 1.0 Driver};Server=localhost;UID=odbc_user;PWD=odbc_pw;DB=odbc_test;Port=3306";

Known bugs and limitations

• multiple statement execution is not fully supported
• The driver is currently available for Windows platforms only, support for other platforms is scheduled for version 1.1

Bug reporting

In case you will find a bug, please report it via the Jira bug system for MariaDB products.

License

GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

For licensing questions, see the Licensing FAQ.