Create ODBC Connection in MicroStrategy with Devart ODBC Drivers

MicroStrategy is a comprehensive business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform that enables organizations to transform data into actionable insights. It offers a wide range of capabilities, including data visualization, advanced analytics, and enterprise reporting. A key feature of MicroStrategy is its ability to connect to various data sources through Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) drivers, which makes the integration with diverse databases more seamless. Also, the platform delivers a suite of AI products with GenAI customization to develop applications.

Key Features

Direct mode

Get native connection to traditional databases and cloud-based services from MicroStrategy using an ODBC driver. There is no need to use client software to establish a MicroStrategy ODBC connection and fetch your sales figures table from databases such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or cloud services such as Salesforce, QuickBooks Online, or Zoho CRM.

SQL data type mapping

Get full support and mapping of data source-specific SQL data types to the standard ODBC data types. Access diverse data stores from MicroStrategy through a unified interface with exceptional speed. Create custom mappings between data source fields and ODBC data types.

Secure connection

Devart ODBC Drivers use SSL / SSH and HTTPS tunneling to protect user data as it flows between a remote server and MicroStrategy over the Internet. Tunneling allows you to send communications securely between machines.

ANSI SQL-92 standard support for cloud services

Devart ODBC Drivers address one of the major challenges of retrieving data from email marketing, CRM, accounting and other cloud applications into MicroStrategy: their lack of adequate API support for SQL-92 standard SQL commands. Our Drivers are designed to get the most out of the API of a cloud-based service.

How to connect MicroStrategy to ODBC data source and access data in 3 steps

01. Open MicroStrategy Workstation, go to Dashboards, and click Create a local Dashboard.

02. Click New Data, navigate to Generic Data Source > Import Option, and set up a connection to ODBC.

03. Select the table you want to view data from, type an SQL query, and click Execute SQL.

Why pick Devart ODBC Drivers for importing data to MicroStrategy?

Fully Unicode-compliant ODBC Drivers

Unicode is the universal standard for encoding characters in most languages. Our ODBC Drivers provide a Unicode-compliant way to work with strings and characters in databases: they are capable of mapping Unicode function calls and string data types to ANSI encoding.

All major versions of data stores are supported

Our ODBC Drivers can be used to interact and perform SQL CRUD operations on popular traditional databases and cloud services from MicroStrategy, such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, or Mailchimp.

Regular feature update rollouts and timely bug fixes

Regular feature updates and timely bug fixes

We frequently release new versions of ODBC Drivers with new capabilities or enhancements for already existing features. Changes and new features are added to the roadmap based on customer feedback. Bug fixes and minor improvements are released as nightly builds to resolve issues in a timely fashion.

Strict compliance with Microsoft ODBC 3.52 Specification

Our ODBC Drivers provide full support for the standard Open Database Connectivity API functions and data types. ODBC interface allows MicroStrategy to connect to ODBC databases using the SQL language. Additionally, we have designed Advanced Connection String parameters that implement different types of behavior.

Exceptional SQL query performance and bulk updates

Our ODBC Drivers allow you to perform bulk record update in MicroStrategy in a single update statement while maintaining decent update speed. When you need to update a table with a million records, you can use a single update operation which significantly reduces execution time compared to row-by-row operations.

Team of expert support engineers and community of developers

Contact our friendly, knowledgeable support team for assistance if you have any questions about using our ODBC Drivers with MicroStrategy or join our forum to discuss anything related to the database application development with other professional developers.