Use "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers" as the provider when adding the linked server. You can add a linked server to your SQL database. You may also have to look up the required connection info that you have to provide.Ĭonnect SQL Server Management Studio to SugarCRM via ODBC, Connect to your local server through SSMS then create a linked server to the ODBC connection. You may have to download the ODBC driver you need from Microsoft or from a third party.
This topic shows you how to connect to an ODBC data source from the Choose a Data Source or Choose a Destination page of the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard. Alternatively, you can input the ODBC Driver connection string in the Provider field. In the Data source field, enter the name of your DSN, e.g.
Choose Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers in the Provider drop-down list. SQL Server Management Studio connect to ODBC Data sourceĬonnect to an ODBC Data Source (SQL Server Import and Export, Under Server type, select Other data source. You can configure an ODBC data source to connect to your Informix database from ArcGIS clients, or you can provide a connection string, which includes the Informix host, server, port, and database information. Informix ODBC Setup, The connection from a Windows client to an Informix database server is ODBC is an API specification that enables access to multiple DBMS's using SQL. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs. This is the last step of the driver installation. Connect to IBM Informix as an ODBC Data Source If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). Use Informix ODBC Driver with an ODBC Driver Manager, The output in Listing 6 shows the demoodbc binary connecting to an Informix database server through the IBM Informix ODBC Driver. ODBC enforces a standard that gives client applications interoperability across database platforms. ODBC is an API specification that enables access to multiple DBMS's using SQL. client to an Informix database server is achieved by utilizing the Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) standard. Set PATH=C:WINDOWSSysWOW64 %PATH% Informix Odbc ConnectionSet up an ODBC data source for Informix-Help, Create the administrator's data source by typing the name of the data source in the Data Source Name text box.
Here is a short training video showing me setting up the drivers on Windows 8 (5 minute Flash video).
The same technique will work for Windows 8 installs, however you have to run the setup in Windows 7 compatibility mode because the Install Anywhere package IBM uses does not work with Windows 8. To do this open a comand prompt - be sure to run 'as administrator', go to the folder where the Informix SDK install is at and type:Īnd then launch the setup from the command line and it should go through.
If you are installing the 32 bit version onto a 64 bit OS you might need to prepend the SysWOW64 path temporarily to your %PATH% variable or the install may bark at you. I've tested the 4.10 TC6 install on 64 bit versions of Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 with no issue. NOTE: IBM finally updated their install package in recent builds so installing this 32 bit version onto 64 bit operating systems should require only that you run the installer executable found in the zip as administrator - I leave the instructions below 'just in case' folks have trouble. Download Now (ZIP file - unpack and run install) IBM Informix Client SDK Install 4.10 TC9 for all 32 and 64 bit Windows Systems. Each tool that needs it will link to this page and their respective setups will check to see if these drivers are installed first before proceeding. Any tool that needs to connect to the Connection 2.1(1) or later database needs the IBM Informix drivers installed to be able to connect.
Informix Client SDK and Informix Connect run on most systems that have a UNIX, Linux, or Windows operating system and, starting with version 3.5, also on the Mac OS X operating system.