Airtable ODBC Driver for PowerBASIC Connection

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

Airtable Key Features

  • Customization and flexibility
  • Forecasting and analytics
  • Files sync and share
  • Sales automation

PowerBASIC Key Features

  • Highly optimized compiler
  • Flexible data handling
  • Direct Windows API access
  • Multi-threading support
Native Connectivity to Airtable

Direct Connection

Our data connector enables various ODBC-aware applications to establish a direct connection to Airtable via TCP/IP to eliminate the need for a Airtable client. A direct connection increases the speed of data transmission between PowerBASIC and Airtable 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 Airtable.

What are some reasons to choose Devart ODBC Driver for Airtable?

Integration

Integration

ODBC Driver for Airtable is compatible with PowerBASIC allowing extraction of data by executing SQL statements.

Platforms Variety

Platforms Variety

ODBC Driver for Airtable 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 Airtable 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 Airtable?

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

How to connect PowerBASIC to Airtable data source and access data in 3 steps

Install the driver and configure an ODBC data source in the driver settings

01. Install the driver and configure a DSN. To verify the connection, click Test Connection.

Install the ODBC driver for PowerBASIC
Start SQL Server Management Studio and create a linked server

02. To connect to an ODBC data source, write the PowerBASIC code and save it with the .bas extension.

Select Data source in PowerBASIC
Run a query against the data storage

03. The final step is to retrieve the required data. For this, execute the code and check the result.

Retrieve data

Advantages of Connectivity to Airtable from PowerBASIC via ODBC Driver

Secure Connection

Secure Connection

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

Working with PowerBASIC using Multiple Functions

Working with PowerBASIC using Multiple Functions

Using PowerBASIC, 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 Airtable from PowerBASIC on various platforms.

Simple SQL Querying on PowerBASIC Files

Simple SQL Querying on PowerBASIC Files

PowerBASIC 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 PowerBASIC

You can share your data with other users in PowerBASIC quickly and easily. Upload your PowerBASIC 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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