We have a bespoke column based database which we access progamatically using its ADO.NET driver which we wrote in-house. However a colleague wants to use Excel etc to access this database using ODBC.
I expected to find some form of connector to provide an ODBC connection over an ADO.NET datasource (or some config in the ODBC) but I can't find anything.
I know this is using a new tech to connect to a much older one, but its what they want! So if anybody knows of a way to do this it would be much appreciated.
Cheers
John
Sounds like you've created a ADO.NET driver first, as opposed to an ODBC driver first. This sounds a little crazy as everyone knows you can access ODBC driver from ADO/NET but not the other way round.
ODBC is actually a much better interface and used by far more applications, is you question actually correct??
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One of ours statistician is stuck trying to read data from mongoDB using SAS.
In my experience connecting mongo to other languages always require a native driver, but in this case I've found that is only possible using ODBC.
I've tried to find a better way to connect this two software but the only idea that came to my mind is to expose mongo via webservice.
Any of you have a better solution to connect SAS to mongodb?
After some tries we found that using webservice is the most convenient way to solve mongodb access in ours case.
Some statistician required to load data on laptop from outside the corporate network so we decided to extend our web service to expose some more informations and access it in SAS like this https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2016/12/02/json-libname-engine-sas/
Thanks all for the clarification regarding ODBC, to me was a real surprise that is still the preferred way to load data in enterprise environments.
On the side of my Gooddata project, I maintain a small PostgreSQL database that contains a few tables.
I would like to be able to integrate both my ETL processes using the same tool, and it seems to me cloudconnect would be the easiest way, since I already have my whole GoodData ETL in it.
Here are the ways I tried to do it without success:
I tried to have a look in the documentation, and it seems to me that all the functionalities of CloverETL that enabled this (DBOutput, PostGreSQLDataWriter) are not available in Cloudconnect.
I managed to connect to the Agile Datawarehouse Service (Database attached to GoodData), but it seems that only the ADS database is able to understand the request:
COPY MyDataBaseTable (field1,field2) FROM LOCAL '${DATA_TMP_DIR}/CIforADS.csv'
even when I adapt the syntax to PostgreSQL because the dynamic addressing I use here does not seem to work.
Is there any way to proceed that I'm missing? Can anyone think of a workaround?
In general this could be achieved by using of "DBExecute" component, but
I'm not sure if I understand it well - do you want to load data into your own Postgres instance using CloudConnect?
I know that Vertica has ADO.NET drivers. Has anyone tried to run Entity Framework on Vertica? If it doesn't work (expected) what might be involved in making it work. Any shared experience with this problem will be appreciated!
I have never tried Entity Framework with Vertica, however one piece of advice I can give you is that Vertica's connection handling is very similar to Postgresql. Very often if you can get your client-side to connect to Postgresql, it will connect to Vertica. So even if the ADO.NET drivers don't work out, using the Postgresql ones might. Look at this blog entry for more info.
I have to create an Xpage web application which directly inputs data in a PostgreSql database. I've never worked with a PostgreSql database so I have absolutely no idea on how to approach this.
The application will be used through a browser if that matters.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
or, if you do not want to use the extLib for this purpose only, take a look at http://www.eknori.de/2011-07-03/using-mysql-data-in-xpages/ The article describes, how to access MySQL, but you can use the same code even for PstGreSQL with the correct JDBC drive.
The article also contains a link to OpenNTF where you can download the full source code.
You need to use a JDBC connection to connect to PostgreSQL. Use the extension library. This library contains a demo application which connects to a sql database using JDBC. Please take a look at this question : How do I access SQL from XPages.
I have been working with Microsoft SQL Server since 6.5 along with other database like Oracle, MySQL and SQLite. I equally appreciate or hate all these DBMS for some point or the other.
On our forthcoming project, we are considering Postgres in the back-end. I have already started playing with it, pretty interesting for me.
I have always heard good comments on Postgres database, but I don't like the admin studio at all. While creating new a table, I hate the way of creating columns on pgAdmin by having to click add button again and again.
Are there any "Studios" for Postgres database that provide
more organized table creation process (spreadsheet like)
graphical view designer
What's wrong with plain SQL? Writing plain SQL goes much faster than click-wait-click-wait-type-click-wait-ok-wait. You could use any tool for this, pgAdmin as well.
Open Office Base can also connect with PostgreSQL, works like MS Access. And talking about MS Access, MS Access can also connect to PostgreSQL to create tables, views, etc.
See this official list of Administration/Development tools.
EMS SQL Manager seems to be a good option.
for the graphical view of SQL queries
maybe SQLeo can Help