Trouble Getting Dreamweaver 8 to work with MySQL: The "Unidentified Error"

Question

I set up MySQL on my Macintosh yesterday, along with PHP --
all went fine yesterday, until I tried to connect Dreamweaver to it
(today I went back and uninstalled and tried to reinstall, and all goes less well -- can anyone tell me what
robert:/usr/local/mysql robert$ bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'himmel'
bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)'
signifies?)
In any case -- back to the story:
I go to connect to the DB in Dreamweaver 8, and when I try to set up the DB in the "databases" tab and click on the "database" field I get
"An unidentified error has occurred"
and then
"HTTP Error Code 404 File Not Found....
[Possible Reasons]: 1) No testing server running on this machine.
2) The Testing Server specified for this site does not map to the http://127.0.0.1/~robert/Sites/_mmServerScripts/MMHTTPDB.php?Type=MySQL&Connecti onString=host=localhost;uid=dwmx;pwd=mm&Host=localhost&&UserName=dmwx&Password=m m&Timeout=30 URL. Verifiy that the URL prefixs points to the root of the site."
Any clue? I know little about PHP or Unix, but am trying to learn.
iMac 17   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Answer 1

There's a 64-bit version of Power Query which you should be able to get from the same site you downloaded the 32-bit version.
It sounds like you used "From SQL Server" to try to connect from Excel to MySQL. This will not work. You would likely need to acquire and install a MySQL ODBC driver and then use "From Microsoft Query". Similarly, to use MySQL from inside
Power Query, you will need to acquire and install a MySQL ADO.NET driver.