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Installing the ODBC Driver

In order to let most other applications (including Microsoft Access) access your MySQL databases, you need to install the ODBC (Open DataBase Connection) driver. Double-click on the ``MyODBC...'' icon on the installation CD as displayed in figure 4.

Figure 4: Start to install the ODBC driver for MySQL.
Image start_install_odbc

After the installation, you should the screen as illustrated in figure 5.

Figure 5: End of the installation of the ODBC driver for MySQL.
Image end_install_odbc



Tak Auyeung 2003-09-07