ADO DB FOR MYSQL

ODBC Driver for MySQL
If you want to connect to a local database, you can use a connection string like the following:

strConnect = _T("Driver={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};Server=localhost;"
     "Database=MyDatabase;User=MyUserName;Password=MyPassword;Option=4;");
If you want to connect with a remote database, you need to specify the name of the server or its IP in the Server parameter. If the Port is distinct to 3306 (default port), you must specify it.

strConnect = _T("Driver={mySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};Server=MyRemoteHost;"
     "Port=3306;Option=4;Database=MyDatabase;Uid=MyUsername;Pwd=MyPassword;");
The parameter Option can be one or more of the following values:

1 - The client can't handle that MyODBC returns the real width of a column.
2 - The client can't handle that MySQL returns the true value of affected rows. If this flag is set then MySQL returns 'found rows' instead. One must have MySQL 3.21.14 or newer to get this to work.
4 - Make a debug log in c:\myodbc.log. This is the same as putting MYSQL_DEBUG=d:t:O,c::\myodbc.log in AUTOEXEC.BAT.
8 - Don't set any packet limit for results and parameters.
16 - Don't prompt for questions even if driver would like to prompt.
32 - Enable or disable the dynamic cursor support. This is not allowed in MyODBC 2.50.
64 - Ignore use of database name in 'database.table.column'.
128 - Force use of ODBC manager cursors (experimental).
256 - Disable the use of extended fetch (experimental).
512 - Pad CHAR fields to full column length.
1024 - SQLDescribeCol() will return fully qualified column names.
2048 - Use the compressed server/client protocol.
4096 - Tell server to ignore space after function name and before '(' (needed by PowerBuilder). This will make all function names keywords!
8192 - Connect with named pipes to a MySQLd server running on NT.
16384 - Change LONGLONG columns to INT columns (some applications can't handle LONGLONG).
32768 - Return 'user' as Table_qualifier and Table_owner from SQLTables (experimental).
65536 - Read parameters from the client and ODBC groups from my.cnf.
131072 - Add some extra safety checks (should not be needed but...).
If you want to have multiple options, you should add the above flags! For example: 16 + 1024 = 1030 and use Option= 1030;.

For more information, go to MyODBC Reference Manual.