Do you want to use the database components in Delphi or not?
I am currently using the personal edition of Delphi 7 to write database programs for my own use. This version of Delphi has no DB components so I have loaded the libmySQL.dll into memory and use the direct calls to the api to connect and query the mySQL database. When the query returns a result I read the records returned into a standard stringgrid component. It works very well.
If you want to use the BD components in delphi then you need to find an ODBC driver and use that to connect.