Getting Started
The CData ODBC Driver for Amazon Redshift is a standards-based ODBC driver with editions for Windows and Unix-based operating systems, like macOS and Linux. The following sections show how to create an ODBC data source and query data.
Creating a DSN on Your Platform
The following guides show how to use the standard tools to configure data source names (DSN).
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Windows
Windows DSN Configuration shows how to configure a DSN with the Microsoft ODBC Administrator tool.
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macOS
macOS DSN Configuration shows how to configure a DSN with the iODBC driver manager.
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Linux
Linux DSN Configuration shows how to configure DSNs with several major driver managers on Linux.
Amazon Redshift Version Support
The driver enables standards-based access to Amazon Redshift based on PostgreSQL 8.0.2 with Amazon Redshift SQL.
See Also
See the following sections to connect to the DSN from tools and from code:
- Using from Tools: Connect to the DSN from various tools on different platforms.
- Using ODBC: Connect to the DSN using the native ODBC API.
- Create a Linked Server: Connect to the DSN as a remote SQL Server database.
- MySQL Remoting: Connect to the DSN over the MySQL protocol.