Hi,
   I'm trying to get MS SQL server 2005 reporting services to work with MySQL database. from the datasource dialogue, I've tried to use the following connection string

"DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};SERVER=localhost;DATABASE=myDatabase;USER= myUsername;PASSWORD=myPassword;OPTION=3;"

to try to connect to my local mysql database but this gives me an error. I've installed the my ODBC drivers from mySQL website. Is there anything I must do in order to register the .dll files which comes with my ODBC with the reporting services? Is is possible that I can use the mySQL connector.net with reporting services instead of ODBC due to performance concersn?

Has someone done this and could you tell me the exact steps I need to take in order to make this work. Thanks for your attention

Is your ODBC datasource configured as a system or user datasource? A user datasource would most likely not be available to the reporting services.

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