Hi peacewalkr,
This forum discusses and asks question about Data platform development using ADO.NET managed providers, since your issue is more related to MySQL, I would suggest that you could post your issue in MySQL forum for suitable support.
https://forums.mysql.com/
Thanks for your understanding.
Best regards,
Zhanglong
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