Create ODBC Connection in PowerBuilder with Devart ODBC Drivers

PowerBuilder is a development tool designed to build business applications. It is included into a group of Sybase products, which together deliver the instruments for creting client/server, multitier, and Internet solutions. The PowerBuilder client contains a user interface with menus and windows to manage applications and their processing logic that includes events and function scripts where users can code, for example, business and validation rules. The tool provides easy access to data kept in various databases. Users can obtain required information through the PowerBuilder ODBC or JDBC interfaces, a middle-tier data access server, or or by establishing a native or direct connection to a database.

Key Features

Direct mode

Get native connection to traditional databases and cloud-based services from PowerBuilder using an ODBC driver. There is no need to use client software to establish a PowerBuilder ODBC connection and fetch your sales figures table from databases such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or cloud services such as Salesforce, QuickBooks, 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 PowerBuilder 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 PowerBuilder 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 PowerBuilder: 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 PowerBuilder to ODBC 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 PowerBuilder
Open the IDE and create a profile

02. Open the IDE and click Database. In the window that opens for ODBC, create a new profile and click OK.

Choose ODBC DSN in PowerBuilder
Check data

03. Expand the created profile. You can either retrieve the data using an SQL query or click on it and select Edit data.

Check data

ODBC Data Connectors

  • ALL Sources
  • Database
  • Cloud

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.

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Direct access to data
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Microsoft Access
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ODBC Driver for MySQL
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ODBC Driver for NexusDB
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ODBC Driver for Oracle
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ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL
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ODBC Driver for SQLite
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ODBC Driver for SQL Azure
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ODBC Driver for SQL Server
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ODBC Driver for xBase
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Why pick Devart ODBC Drivers for importing data to PowerBuilder?

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 PowerBuilder, 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

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 PowerBuilder 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 PowerBuilder 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

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 PowerBuilder or join our forum to discuss anything related to the database application development with other professional developers.

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