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MyOLEDB v3 GNU Installation & Getting Started Notes
Win32 version			Updated 6 February 2001
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1. Select a directory to install MyOLEDB v3 to. 
E.g., c:\Program Files\MyOLEDB\.

2. Install MS Visual Studio 6.0 or more recent with VC++. You may want to install VB,
too, to use MyOLEDB with ADO in your VB applications.

3. Install MSDA SDK 2.0 or more recent in order to compile MyOLEDB v3. 
Get the package at www.microsoft.com. You will find some useful utilities there,
like RowsetViewer. NOTE: Binaries redistribution does not require MSDA SDK. 
Package "mdac_typ.exe" of v2.0 or v2.1 is sufficient. Windows 2000 does not require it.

4. Unpack somewhere and compile MyOLEDB v3 package (target "MyOLEDB"). 
You produce MyProv.dll (OLE DB Provider for MySQL). Copy it to your installation
directory.

5. Run "regsvr32.exe path\MyProv.dll", where "path" means installation directory.

6. You may want to use SWsoft Library Version of MySQL engine. It is mysqld.dll
instead of mysqld.exe - that is useful for some purposes. It is distributed under
GPL license. You may get it at www.mysql.com or www.sw.com.sg. Find it if you want
and compile / install. 
MyOLEDB supports both standard and library versions of MySQL engine. But you need
to define MYSQL_CLIENT_IS_RUNNING_AT_MYSQL_SERVER_COMP in classfac.cpp to initialize
the library properly.

7. Ensure that MySQL engine is started at a local or remote computer. It is recommended to
check that you can connect to a selected MySQL server as a selected user using MySQL client
console.

8. Use OLE DB / ADO connection parameters as below:
 Provider:    MySQLProv
 Data Source: SERVER=server_name;DB=database_name;UID=user_name;PWD=password;PORT=port_number

OR

 Provider:    MySQLProv
 Location:    server_name
 Data Source: database_name
 User:        user_name
 Password:    password

9. Get more information about MyOLEDB
http://www.sw.com.sg and http://www.mysql.com
