Airtable ODBC Driver for Microsoft Visual Studio 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 Microsoft Visual Studio. It enables you to retrieve data to Microsoft Visual Studio, 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

Microsoft Visual Studio Key Features

  • Integrated development environment
  • Database development features
  • Seamless integration with source control
  • Extensibility and ecosystem
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 Microsoft Visual Studio 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 Microsoft Visual Studio 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 Visual Studio 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 an ODBC data source. Start Visual Studio and select Tool > Connect to database (ODBC).

Install the ODBC driver for Visual Studio
Start Database Connection window and link to a database

02. Select Microsoft ODBC Data Source as Data Source and spesify the DSN. Test your connection and click Ok.

Choose ODBC driver in Visual Studio
Run a query against the data storage

03. In Server Explorer, expand the database and right-click on the table. Select Retrieve data to display it in a grid.

Retrieve database to Visual Studio

Advantages of Connectivity to Airtable from Microsoft Visual Studio 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 Microsoft Visual Studio using Multiple Functions

Working with Microsoft Visual Studio using Multiple Functions

Using Microsoft Visual Studio, 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 Microsoft Visual Studio on various platforms.

Simple SQL Querying on Microsoft Visual Studio Files

Simple SQL Querying on Microsoft Visual Studio Files

Microsoft Visual Studio 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 Studio

You can share your data with other users in Microsoft Visual Studio quickly and easily. Upload your Microsoft Visual Studio 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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