Advanced tab

This tab provides advanced fields that are for special purposes and are not required by the majority of users.

Connection name The name of the connection that is being created.

Character set Lets you specify a character set (a set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols specific to a country or language). The ANSI character set is used by Microsoft Windows. An OEM character set is any character set except the ANSI character set.

Allow multiple record fetching Enables multiple records to be retrieved at one time instead of individually. By default, multiple record fetching is allowed.

Display debugging information in a log file The name of the file in which the debugging information is to be saved.

Additional connection parameters Enter any additional options here. Parameters set throughout the remainder of this dialog take precedence over parameters typed here.