MySQL ODBC DNS

Question

Hi to everyone! First of all let me tell you that i've been looking for an example on how to do this for a long time before even considering making this post.
Let's go back to business, I'm having an issue trying to connect a mySQL database through "DSN". 
$connectionDB = new-object system.data.odbc.odbcconnection
$connectionDB.connectionstring = "(Driver={MySQL ODBC 5.2w Driver};DSN=RENTABILIDAD_DES)"
$connectionDB.open()
Results are not very promising
[IM002] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified"[0]
Enviroment:
Connection from a Windows 64 Enterprise
Connection to mySQL database (remote)
Powershell v3
Just in case you, I can and did connect to mySQL done the stuff i needed to do making the proper conection string. The issue in doind this, is that the password is in plain text (Harcoded on the code), now when i move the development to production site i
wont be able to do this. Example above
#dataBase info
$mysql_server = "10.1.131.106"
$mysql_user = "USER"
$mysql_password = "PASSWORD"
$Mysql_db = "db_XXXXXXX"
$ConnectionString = "SERVER=$mysql_server;UID=$mysql_user;PWD=$mysql_password;database=$Mysql_db"
$connectionDB = New-Object -TypeName MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection
$connectionDB.ConnectionString = $ConnectionString
$connectionDB.Open()
Works like a charm... anyway does anyone know to to use an ODBC already created to connect a mySQL data Base using powershell?
In advance thanks!!

Answer 1

I'm suggesting that might be part of the problem, take those out and try it again.  You aren't using parentheses in the 2nd example and I don't think your first example would work with them.  The error message tends to support my suspicion that
the values for DSN and Driver are not being passed correctly.
I hope this post has helped!