The CData ODBC Driver for Salesforce CRM Analytics is a standards-based ODBC driver with editions for Windows and Linux operating systems. 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).

• Windows

  Windows DSN Configuration shows how to configure a DSN with the Microsoft ODBC Administrator tool.

• Linux

  Linux DSN Configuration shows how to configure DSNs with several major driver managers on Linux.

Salesforce CRM Analytics Version Support

The driver models Salesforce CRM Analytics datasets and lenses as tables in a relational database, using the Salesforce CRM Analytics REST API.

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.