The key difference for me was the ability to handle UTF-8. Regards,
Jerry Schwartz The Infoshop by Global Information Incorporated 195 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT 06032 860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341 www.the-infoshop.com >-----Original Message----- >From: Tompkins Neil [mailto:neil.tompk...@googlemail.com] >Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:04 AM >To: [MySQL] >Subject: Difference between MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51 and ODBC 5.1 > >Hi, > >We are currently running a early version of MySQL and are looking to upgrade >to the latest version 5. However, we have a number of external applications >which use the MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51. What are the differences between >ODBC 3.51 and ODBC 5.1. For example do I need to use ODBC 5.1 if we upgrade >our database to version 5 or can I continue using ODBC 3.51. > >I carried out some limited tests and found that ODBC 3.51 worked fine with >MySQL database version 5. However, if I use ODBC 5.1 with MySQL version 5 I >have a very strange problem as documented here : >http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=44935. Basically all my queries fail to >return any string/varchar values. > >Thanks for any help. > >Regards, >Neil -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
