I am facing an issue while giving the provider name. It's writing "provider has not been registered in the local machine" ! !

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I am facing an issue while giving the provider name for connecting MySQL with oledb. It's writing "Provider has not been registered in the local machine" !!

What I have tried:

I tried with the provider name = "MySql.Data.MySqlClient"

Posted 29-Aug-18 2:48am

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Updated 29-Aug-18 3:04am

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Jochen Arndt · Answer 1 · 2018-08-29T03:05:00

Solution 1

There is no MySQL OLEDB driver. There are only MySQL :: Connector/NET[^] and MySQL :: Connector/ODBC[^]. If you are not using a .Net language, you have to use the ODBC driver.

Posted 29-Aug-18 3:05am

Jochen Arndt