Adding ODBC Drivers in the System Registry

The Windows applications communicate with database servers via ODBC drivers. The ODBC driver can be added/modified in the "Data Sources" dialog which is in the Administrative Tools. There are too many cases where you must register the driver manually, but here is how you can set proper values in the system registry so that the driver section will appear in the driver listing in the dialog.

1. Add an entry of the database driver in

     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE  
        SOFTWARE 
           ODBC 
             ODBCINST.INI  

2. Set parameters for the entry.
3. Add a string value in

     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
         SOFTWARE
            ODBC
              ODBC Drivers