Hi Michael,
I wonder who told you to use mysqli with MySQL Workbench, as this is nonsense. Mysqli is a php module to connect to MySQL (kinda php connector, similar to other connectors we have like connector/c, conn/c++, conn/.net, conn/j etc.).
Since MySQL Workbench is a C++ application it uses conn/c++ and this cannot be changed in any way. Additionally, the migration module can use ODBC to connect to source servers to migrate to MySQL.
Mike Lischke, MySQL Developer Tools
Oracle Corporation
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/15/2015 12:47AM by Mike Lischke.