Microsoft Access ODBC Driver for Microsoft Visual FoxPro Connection

Accessing the Microsoft Access database can be fast and seamless by using the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) solution. Providing full interoperability, the ODBC driver for Microsoft Access allows you to access live Microsoft Access data directly from Microsoft Visual FoxPro. It enables you to retrieve data to Microsoft Visual FoxPro, and review and modify these data right in this application.

Microsoft Access Key Features

  • Open source
  • Low memory leakage problem
  • Support for multiple table types
  • Platform Independent

Microsoft Visual FoxPro Key Features

  • Database development
  • Data manipulation and querying
  • Report generation
  • Extensibility and customization
Native Connectivity to Microsoft Access

Direct Connection

Our data connector enables various ODBC-aware applications to establish a direct connection to Microsoft Access via TCP/IP to eliminate the need for a Microsoft Access client. A direct connection increases the speed of data transmission between Microsoft Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Access for real-time analytics. It streamlines the deployment process since there is no need to distribute any additional client-side software with the ODBC driver for Microsoft Access.

What are some reasons to choose Devart ODBC Driver for Microsoft Access?

Integration

Integration

ODBC Driver for Microsoft Access is compatible with Microsoft Visual FoxPro allowing extraction of data by executing SQL statements.

Platforms Variety

Platforms Variety

ODBC Driver for Microsoft Access can be used with 32-bit and 64-bit applications on both x32 and x64 platforms, so there is no need to additionally configure the driver, applications, or environment.

Fully Unicode-Compliant Driver

Fully Unicode-Compliant Driver

With our fully Unicode-compliant driver, you can properly retrieve and modify any data in multilingual Microsoft Access databases, regardless of their character set: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Chinese, etc., and in any language environment.

How to download, install, and configure ODBC Driver for Microsoft Access?

Download the driver. Run the installer and follow the instructions in the wizard. Open ODBC Data Sources. In the System DSN tab, click Add. Select the needed driver and click Finish.
In the License tab of the Configuration dialog, click Input Activation Key and enter your key. Click OK.
In the General tab of the Configuration dialog, fill in the fields with the database connection data. To test the connectivity, click Test Connection. To save the DSN, click OK.
Tools

To install and configure ODBC Driver for Microsoft Access on macOS, download first the PKG file from the Devart website. Run the downloaded file and follow the instructions in the wizard. After installing the driver, run the 64-bit or 86-bit iODBC utility, find the needed driver, and click Configure. In the dialog box that appears, specify the required connection settings and click OK. To establish a connection to the data source, click Test.

macos
Installation of an ODBC driver on Ubuntu is carried out from the DEB package. Download the package that matches the bitness of your operating system.
Then open the folder with the downloaded package, double-click the DEB package, and click Install.
Open the Terminal and install the driver by using the following command.
If you use CentOC, you need to download the RPM package of the corresponding bitness.
After that, open the Konsole and navigate to the folder with the downloaded package specifying the path to the folder as a parameter of the cd command. Then, install the driver by using the following commands.
Gui installation

To install the devartodbcaccess_i386.deb on a 32-bit system, use:

use sudo dpkg -i devartodbcaccess_i386.deb

To install the devartodbcaccess_amd64.deb on a 64-bit system, use:

sudo dpkg -i devartodbcaccess_amd64.deb

For more detailed information about installing and configuring ODBC Driver for Microsoft Access on Ubuntu, go to the documentation.

cd ~/Downloads/

To install the devart-odbc-access.i386.rpm on a 32-bit system, use:

sudo -rpm -ivh devart-odbc-access.i386.rpm

To install the devart-odbc-access.x86_64.rpm on a 64-bit system, use:

sudo rpm -ivh devart-odbc-access.x86_64.rpm

For more detailed information about installing and configuring ODBC Driver for Microsoft Access on Centos, go to the documentation.

How to connect Visual FoxPro to Microsoft Access in 3 Simple Steps

Installing an ODBC driver for Visual FoxPro
01. Install the driver and configure a DSN. In Database Designer, right-click and select New Remote View...
Installing an ODBC driver for Visual FoxPro
Choose ODBC DSN in Visual FoxPro
02. Select New View, then select Available Data Sources. In the dialog box that appears, select your DSN. Click OK.
Choose ODBC DSN in Visual FoxPro
Import ODBC data to Visual FoxPro
03. Select the table and click Add. Select the fields to be retrieved, then right-click on the table and select Run Query.
Import ODBC data to Visual FoxPro

Advantages of Connectivity to Microsoft Access from Microsoft Visual FoxPro via ODBC Driver

Secure Connection

Secure Connection

Every operation with Microsoft Access becomes significantly faster using such capabilities of our driver as local data caching, connection pooling, and much more.

Working with Microsoft Visual FoxPro using Multiple Functions

Working with Microsoft Visual FoxPro using Multiple Functions

Using Microsoft Visual FoxPro, you can create tables, add data, select, delete, sort, edit, combine data from several database tables, and find unique values quickly and easily.

ODBC Conformance

ODBC Conformance

The driver fully supports the ODBC interface, its data types, and functions. It offers advanced connection string parameters and allows any ODBC-compliant desktop or web application to connect to Microsoft Access from Microsoft Visual FoxPro on various platforms.

Simple SQL Querying on Microsoft Visual FoxPro Files

Simple SQL Querying on Microsoft Visual FoxPro Files

Microsoft Visual FoxPro processes SQL through its SQL dialect. Using ODBC connection, it is simple to execute different SQL queries to retrieve entire tables or specific columns from Excel, filter data, formate data, numbers, etc.

Cost-Effective Deployment

Cost-Effective Deployment

Installing the driver is easy with the standalone installation file. There is no need in deploying and configuring any additional software which results in a reduction in deployment costs.

Sharing Your Data with Excel

Sharing Your Data with Microsoft Visual FoxPro

You can share your data with other users in Microsoft Visual FoxPro quickly and easily. Upload your Microsoft Visual FoxPro data to the SharePoint lists so that it can be available for you and others to use to create reports, data models, dashboards, etc.

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