ODBC and MySQL connectivity with Root 6.36 (and beyond)

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Dear Root Dev-Team,

I would like to inquire why the ODBC and MySQL connectivity was deprecated / removed in Root 6.36 (and following versions)?
At our institute, we are relying on the pre-compiled distributions of ROOT for Windows, because our IT policy only provides support for Windows-based PCs.
We wanted to update our Root distribution from 6.34.04 to 6.36.02. However, it broke all our code requiring SQL-server connections, so we had to roll back.

Is it still somehow possible to connect to a MariaDB or MySQL server under Windows with or without using ODBC in Root 6.36.02?

ROOT Version: 6.36.02
Platform: Windows 11
Compiler: Visual Studio 17.12.2

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Hi @mtakacs,

Thanks for reporting this. The main reason we decided to deprecate (and later removed) was that we weren’t aware of anyone using ODBC at the time:

We’ll discuss this and see what we can do. Adding @bellenot, @Danilo in the loop.

Cheers,

Dev

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Hello, same here, in the T2K/ND280 software stack we rely on the TMySQLXXX classes to access our databases. Any idea how to proceed?

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