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Import data to Power BI
using Devart ODBC Drivers

Use Devart ODBC drivers for connecting Power BI to a whole range of on-premise and cloud databases and applications.

Connect Power BI to your data source with our ODBC connectors

Power BI is a feature-rich environment for developing business intelligence reports. The software supports ODBC data sources and offers many tools for transforming data into meaningful interactive visualizations. Devart provides ODBC connectors for Power BI to access data in databases and cloud applications, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, xBase, Oracle, Salesforce, or Mailchimp. With Power BI Desktop and ODBC drivers, you can retrieve entire tables or execute SQL queries that return a subset from MongoDB, FreshBooks, NetSuite, and other data sources.

The section below describes the main connection options. Power BI ODBC database connection also offers some advanced options where you can provide a SQL statement to specify what data to return, e.g. to limit the number of rows returned or to exclude unnecessary fields or columns. Expand the Advanced Options area and type in your SQL statement. You can also specify here properties for the Power BI ODBC connection string.

Key Features

Direct mode

Native connection to traditional databases and cloud-based services from Power BI using an ODBC driver. No need to use client software to establish a Power BI 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

Full support and mapping of data source-specific SQL data types to the standard ODBC data types. Access diverse data stores from Power BI through a unified interface with exceptional speed. You can create custom mappings between data source fields and ODBC data types.

ODBC Driver features for Power BI

Secure connection

Devart ODBC drivers use SSL / SSH and HTTPS tunneling to protect user data as it flows between a remote server and Power BI 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 Power BI: their lack of adequate API support for SQL-92 standard SQL commands. Our drivers are designed to get the most out of cloud service APIs.

How to connect Power BI to ODBC data source and access data in 3 steps

01.Install the driver and configure an ODBC data source. Start Power BI and choose Get Data > Other > ODBC.

Install the ODBC driver for Power BI

02.Choose the DSN that you configured for the ODBC Driver and enter your credentials in the next step.

Choose ODBC DSN in Power BI

03.Now Power BI database connection is established: you can load a table for business intelligence reporting.

Retrieve ODBC database to Power BI

ODBC Data Connectors

All sources
Database
Cloud

Amazon Redshift

Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Azure Synapse Analytics

Confluence Cloud

Dynamics 365 Business Central

Google BigQuery

Heroku Postgres

Jira Service Desk

Jira Service Management

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel Online

QuickBooks Online

QuickBooks Desktop

Fast and unified access to databases

We offer you optimal data access by means of ODBC and native database client libraries. However, you can avoid using client libraries, since our ODBC drivers are able to connect via the native protocol directly without using client software at all.

Didn't find the necessary driver? Contact us!

Amazon Redshift

Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Azure Synapse Analytics

Google BigQuery

Heroku Postgres

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Excel

Fast and unified access to clouds

You can connect to the most popular cloud resources directly via HTTP. In case you have no direct access to a cloud data source via HTTP, you have the option of establishing a connection through a proxy server.

Didn't find the necessary driver? Contact us!

Confluence Cloud

Dynamics 365 Business Central

Jira Service Desk

Jira Service Management

Microsoft Excel Online

QuickBooks Online

QuickBooks Desktop

Why pick Devart ODBC Drivers for importing data to Power BI?

Fully Unicode-compliant ODBC drivers

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

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 Power BI, 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 3.51 Specification

Strict compliance with Microsoft ODBC 3.51 Specification

Our ODBC drivers provide full support for the standard Open Database Connectivity API functions and data types. ODBC interface allows Power BI 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

Exceptional SQL query performance and bulk updates

Our ODBC drivers allow you to perform bulk record update in Power BI in a single update statement while maintaining decent update speed. When you need to update a table with a million of 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 Tableau or join our forum to discuss anything related to the database application development with other professional developers.

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