My company is developing an ODBC driver to access a native database, built internally.
We would like to plug database OLAP tools like Tableau, for example.
How do I know which calls the SQL tableau performs?
For example, what SQL query to get the measures and dimensions?
Is the any documentation?
I found only this link:http://kb.tableausoftware.com/articles/knowledgebase/tableau-and-odbc
Thanks
Most companies build their ODBC drivers using the SimbaEngine ODBC SDK. SimbaEngine is the foundation for most of the ODBC drivers that Tableau connects with including ones like Google, Hive, and Cassandra. If you use the SimbaEngine SDK to build your custom ODBC driver, we can pretty much guarantee it will not only work with Tableau, but will also work with other products like Excel, QlikView, BusinessObjects, etc. Using the SimbaEngine SDK, you can build a basic read-only ODBC driver in as little as 5 days. Also, once you have built your ODBC driver, the SDK allows you to quickly take that and build JDBC and ADO.NET drivers as well. You can get more information at http://www.simba.com/products/simba-engine-sdk.
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One of the teams using RPA in my company wants to automate reporting that is run in Qubole - Hive environment. The initial approach is to unleash the robot to log in to Okta, then Workbench in Qubole, run the query, and download results.
Is there a more straightforward way to do it using UiPath Studio you know about?
I'm not much familiar with the UiPath studio but if UiPath has ODBC/JDBC interface to connect to different data sources, then you can make use of the Qubole ODBC or JDBC driver (refer: ODBC Driver
and
JDBC Driver
) to directly fire the hive SQL query on Qubole Analyse and the driver will return the results to UiPath.
You can also utilize REST API calls REST API Reference to submit queries to qubole.
I am new to Google's BigQuery (BQ). I am looking for a way to use SQL Developer (SD) as my primary GUI.
I have tried setting up a third party JDBC, but it does not seem to work. I downloaded Google's JDBC drivers for BQ and tried setting it up as a third party connection in SD. It registers, but does not show on the create new connection.
It is supposed to show up as a new Connection Type tab, but nothing is shown.
Is it possible to access BigQuery with SQL Developer? If so, can anyone provide me with the correct steps to duplicate?
Have you tried the Simba Driver? It provides not only JDBC, but ODBC (3.8 is supported) as well.
Alternatively you can check this documentation on how to Access BigQuery Data as a Remote Oracle Database.
This is my first post in here,
I am new to SQL and I started learning it, I use it mainly in excel to get data from an outer Database
I first go to data then Refresh all then from the menu I choose connection properties
Then a dialogue appears and I input my code in the window called Command text from the Tab Definition
I added images to show where I input my SQL code
My question is what type of SQL do I input there ?
is it mySQL or SQLServer or what ??, so I can learn it, because some commands just don't work with me the way they are supposed to do
You can connect to any database type as long as you have the appropriate ODBC drivers. For example, here is documentation for MySQL for Excel. Quote from article "Use Microsoft Query to retrieve external data":
If the external database that you want to access is not supported by the
ODBC drivers that are installed with Microsoft Query, then you
need to obtain and install a Microsoft Office-compatible ODBC driver
from a third-party vendor, such as the manufacturer of the database.
Contact the database vendor for installation instructions.
OLAP databases do not require ODBC drivers. When you install Microsoft Query, drivers are installed for databases that were created
by using Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. To connect to other
OLAP databases, you need to install a data source driver and client
software.
Whichever database type you connect to, you will still be using Microsoft's SQL variant (as developed for SQL Server). As a beginner you're not going to notice too many differences right off the top. Most of the differences are related to data types, such as DATE vs DATETIME. Here is a wiki on SQL Compliance and this article on MS Access SQL will also apply to Excel Query.
You can connect to many data source including: SQL Server database, Access database, MySQL database, PostgreSQL database etc..
You can find the full list here: Link
A company uses netsuites to make purchase orders and store sales information. The only way this company is able to access this information at the moment is through building netsuites reports
Is there a way SQL language could be written to access the netsuites data as some of the questions asked by the business need something a bit more complex than what netsuites reporting provides - and sound very easy using SQL language
I have experience in Oracle, mysql, and many other SQL languages so I would like to know how to set up a connection to the companies netsuites data so I can help write custom queries
Netsuite has SuiteAnalytics Connect, which is ODBC. It can be downloaded from a link at the very bottom the home screen of your Netsuite account.
After installation of the application bundle and connecting it to your Netsuite, you can write ORACLE SQL queries via Excel, Access, etc. My experience is that Netsuite uses Oracle SQL in ODBC queries and in Saved Search custom queries.
The way I understand it, the ODBC driver is a separately priced item from NetSuite. Once you have that, you could use Excel, Access, Crystal Reports or anything else that can use the ODBC driver to read the data and write queries against it.
The normal way to access NetSuite data is with SuiteScript -- javascript code that uses the nlapi* calls to get to the data.
You can access Netsuite backend using a number of different tools and it allows running Oracle SQL directly.
Netsuite provides JDBC, ADO.NET and ODBC if it was included in your licensing purchase. You can find the downloads from the main menu - lower left hand of the screen in Settings - Set Up SuiteAnalytics Connect.
ADO.net however is pretty worthless in SSIS as it doesn't allow parameter mapping or SQL from a variable value. I have yet to get the ODBC driver to work correctly - it can connect and show columns of a table but it won't validate saying "The ODBC Source.Outputs[ODBC Source Error Output].Columns[...] on the error output has properties that do not match the properties of its corresponding data source column."
The other options I'm looking into are Cozyroc and Kinsgwaysoft adapters for Netsuite. You could also do SOAP or REST connections if desired.
I've not used this, but there should as of 2014.2 there is an ODBC driver available for read access.
http://www.netsuite.com/portal/landing/2014-2/suiteanalytics.shtml
As previously mentioned, if you have it licensed you can download the ODBC driver from the Netsuite application. I tested some other adapters but found Netsuite's at least as good as the competitors and they provide timely security updates to the drivers as well as both 64 and 32 bit versions.
There are also metadata browsers that are on the net (example is URL below), the type of browser being based on which kind of access you are looking at (web services, verses ODBC, etc).
https://system.sandbox.netsuite.com/help/helpcenter/en_US/srbrowser/Browser2017_2/odbc/record/account.html
Within the application GUI there is information you need to connect using their ODBC connection (you need the account id and the role id). The URL is just odbcserver.xxxx.netsuite.com where xxx is specific to your environment you are accessing. Note that other adapters such as Cozyroc, etc. require the admin to setup connections in Netsuite for those.
Here is a list of the main metadata tables:
OA_FKEYS
OA_TABLES
OA_COLUMNS
In addition, note that the URL above does NOT include customization. Plus its not easily consumed by automation tools. But Netsuite provides a set of metadata views within the repository which you can use ODBC to pull from which includes all keys - foreign and primary. AND it does include customizations! I built simple set of ETL jobs that use standard ADO.NET driver within SSIS and the ODBC DSN to pull all the metadata and then use BIML to automatically generate all the extract ETL and related staging tables. You can also easily then use the metadata to detect changes in the underlying database.
Let me know if I can be any help with doing any of this.
There are 3rd party tools, like CData ODBC Adapter for NetSuite: http://www.cdata.com/drivers/netsuite/odbc/ . This tool allows you to run standard SQL against the NetSuite API. Note that the NetSuite API presents a very different data model from that of the native NetSuite ODBC.
With this tool, you install in onto your machine (Win in my case) and then after you configure the driver, you can run SQL against it (the driver config is where you specify your NS credentials, etc.).
It revolutionizes access to NetSuite data IMHO.
Download the Netsuite ODBC drivers, set up your DSN locally with server/credentials, Use SSIS pkgs to automate data extract and load onto you local DB. Use ADO.NET drivers if preferred. Then utilize those tables to create/deliver your complex reports using SQL (stored procedures) and Reporting Services. This will require SQL Standard license at minimum though.
Only API call can access the NetSuite data
You can't access to Netsuite data using sql language.
The only way to gain access to Netsuite from third party systems is to use SOAP request or PHP toolkit.
I am having trouble gaining access to FileMaker Pro 11 data through the ODBC connection and starting to believe that it is not possible.
I have installed the odbc drivers supplied with the installation (11.03.76.00) locally to the FileMaker database, having worked out that they will not work remotely to the server. Have setup and successfully tested a system DSN.
When I try to use that System DSN within SQL Server or SSIS (same underlying process), I am gaining access to the list of tables and can preview the data, however when each process tries to get the metadata regarding the tables it fails.
SQL lets me select the tables / columns, preview the data, match it to destination and change the data types, but then fails on the next step of checking the conversion
SSIS provides list of tables / columns, data preview, but fails to list the columns (im guessing because it cannot work out the types)
FileMaker tech support does not cover the ODBC driver which has led me to believe it does not work...
Has anyone successfully attached to FileMaker Pro though the version 11 of the driver with SSIS or SQL? I need to automate a daily extract - any other ideas?
As billinkc points (above comment - sorry cannot convert comment into an answer), you can use the Script component as a Source and program around the ODBC driver issues.
The FileMaker Pro 11 odbc driver is data type aware, but they are not plumbed in correctly. The work around requires converting each column to string and then TryParse'ing to the correct data type.