The 5.2 version comes in two flavors: ANSI and Unicode, in addition to the version number the name has changed to either:
MySQL ODBC 5.2 Unicode Driver
(recommended)MySQL ODBC 5.2 ANSI Driver
See also:
Question
How does one upgrade the MySQL Connector/ODBC from 5.1 to 5.2? When I replace the connection string
Driver={MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver};...
with
Driver={MySQL ODBC 5.2 Driver};...
it does not work and I get
"[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Der Datenquellenname wurde nicht gefunden, und es wurde kein Standardtreiber angegeben"
(If you happen to know the english error message, please remove this note and add the english error message.)
Solution
The 5.2 version comes in two flavors: ANSI and Unicode, in addition to the version number the name has changed to either:
MySQL ODBC 5.2 Unicode Driver
(recommended)MySQL ODBC 5.2 ANSI Driver
See also: