How to connect to ODBC in Powershell? - database

Question

How can I connect to odbc from powershell?
I have found this function:
function Get-ODBC-Data{
param(
[string]$query=$('select count(*) from [master].[sys].[table_name]'),
)
$conn = New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection
$conn.ConnectionString = "DSN=AllSecure;"
$conn.open()
$cmd = New-object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand($query,$conn)
$ds = New-Object system.Data.DataSet
(New-Object system.Data.odbc.odbcDataAdapter($cmd)).fill($ds) | out-null
$conn.close()
$ds.Tables[0]
}
$result = Get-ODBC-Data
Write-Host "Statistic: " $result[0];
Write-Host "Message: " $result[0] ;
But I still don't know how to use it!
Where am I supposed to provide a username and a password?
Can you please provide me with the command to run on Powershell to run the script?
Or is there a better way to connect?
THANKS!

Answer 1

Where am I supposed to provide a username and a password?
You include them as UID= and PWD= in the connection string:
$connStr = #"
DSN=mssqlLocal64;
UID=scott;
PWD=tiger;
"#
$con = New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection $connStr
$con.Open()
$sql = "SELECT name, create_date FROM sys.tables ORDER BY name"
$cmd = New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand $sql, $con
$rdr = $cmd.ExecuteReader()
while ($rdr.Read())
{
Write ("[{0}] -> {1}" -f $rdr["name"], $rdr["create_date"])
}
$rdr.Close()
$con.Close()