Connecting to MySQL Community Edition with Qlik Sense (System DSN with MySQL ODBC driver)

As of Qlik Sense 3.2.2, the Qlik ODBC Connector package does not connect to MySQL Community Edition servers.

A large number of Linux web servers run on the community edition, so it’s handy to be able to connect and extract information from this data source as well.

Error message: ERROR [HY000] [Qlik][ODBC MySQL Wire Protocol driver]Connections to MySQL Community Servers are not supported. Please contact MySQL to obtain a MySQL Enterprise or Commercial version.
As we can’t use the connector package, we must instead load the MySQL driver and use a Windows DSN. Continue reading “Connecting to MySQL Community Edition with Qlik Sense (System DSN with MySQL ODBC driver)”