Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver User's Guide - Introduction

Introducing the Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver

The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver is an ODBC 3.81 driver for Microsoft SQL Server. It lets ODBC-enabled applications access SQL Server databases from Linux, Unix and Windows platforms.

The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports:

Chapter Guide

Overview

The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver connects ODBC-enabled applications on Linux, Unix and Windows to SQL Server databases. For example, access SQL Server databases from Apache, ApplixWare, Informatica, Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org and StarOffice. In addition, the Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports the Perl DBI and DBD::ODBC modules, PHP, PEAR DB, the Python pyodbc and mxODBC interfaces, C and any other ODBC-enabled programming language or interface.

The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports SQL Server 7.0 through to 2019. The driver's SQL Server feature support includes database mirroring, encrypted connections using a self-signed SSL certificate, MARS, XML data types, MAX data types, snapshot isolation, GEOGRAPHY and GEOMETRY data types, UTF-16 Supplementary Characters (SC) Collations, contained databases, AlwaysOn Availability Groups and read-only routing.

Product Status

The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver is currently available on Unix, Linux and Windows platforms. The most up to date list of Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver platforms is available at:

http://www.easysoft.com/products/data_access/odbc-sql-server-driver/index.html

Software problems can be reported to support@easysoft.com by users who have either purchased support or registered at the Easysoft web site at http://www.easysoft.com and are evaluating Easysoft products.

Deployment

The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver uses the Tabular Data Stream (TDS) data transfer protocol to communicate with SQL Server. No additional software needs to be installed on the SQL Server machine.

The TCP/IP protocol must be enabled in the SQL Server instance that you want to connect to.