I need to access my data stored in the Paradox database.
I have installed Datadirect drivers for accessing the paradox database and have configured the User DSN and System DSN data source connections as mentioned in all the manuals.
I still am not able to connect to my Paradox database and get :
Network Initialization error, Cannot connect to file.
I currently have :
> Control Panel>Administrative Tools> ODBC Datasource> Drivers> Datadirect Paradox 6.0
Is there anyway I can test whether my Datadirect drivers have been installed correctly? I could not find anywhere how to do the same.
Any help or advise on how I can test the the drivers would be very helpful.
Thank you.
If you find the driver name under ODBC Datasource> Drivers, the driver has been installed successfully, the error you got leads to a problem reaching database over the network.
Check your connection string and if the file you pointing is really reachable ...
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I am trying to set up my Snowflake ODBC driver to work in EXCEL. I have managed to set up the driver and successfully connected it both SQL server and Tableau but for some reaon, whenever I try to connect to it through excel I get an error about the host not being resolved. Any help?
Answering for completeness (curating tags):
As self-answered in the comments, this issue was resolved by moving the driver into the system folder.
I have a Firebird Database (v2.5) which lives on a server with hostname "FBDEVDB". I am working on a separate server on which I have installed SQL Server to begin the process of migrating the tables and data into a SQL Server database.
I saw several posts discussing that this can be done using the Import Data feature of SSMS with an ODBC connection to the Firebird DB. So, I have downloaded and installed the Firebird ODBC Driver 64-Bit. When I went to configure my DSN I first got an error regarding a missing gds32.dll. Looking into it further, I realized I needed the fbclient.dll from the Firebird files. I've copied it over to my SQL Server machine, and now the gds32.dll error is gone, and I can tell it is TRYING to connect to the Firebird instance because if I provide an incorrect username/password it tells me my login is incorrect.
However, when I use a valid login/password, I get the following error message
I have defined the following fields in the ODBC setup
Database: FBDEVDB::C:\Firebird\MYDATABASE.FDB
Client: C:\Temp\fbclient.dll
Database Account: SYSDBA with VALID PASSWORD
What am I missing? I can not seem to find any information on what this error means.
Thank you!!!!!
I'm trying to set up a connection from ubuntu to mssql server with the RODBC package.
I did make it work with RJDBC but read the speed might be much slower than ODBC so I wanted to test it.
I don't have a dsn available, ip port databasename usr pwd is all the information I can use.
The code used with RJDBC which works is:
drv <- JDBC("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver",
"/media/sqljdbc4.jar")
RJDBC::dbConnect(drv, 'jdbc:sqlserver://ip:port;databaseName=databasename', 'usr', 'pwd')
Tried alot around browsing different syntaxes but could not make it work.
RODBC::odbcDriverConnect('driver={SQL Server};server=ip:port;database=databasename;uid=usr;pwd=pwd)
Gives me the error: [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified
Do I need to download drivers to the ubuntu machine? Thought they were included with the package.
The RODBC package doesn't include drivers. That would be unwieldy given how many possibilities there are.
see https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RODBC/vignettes/RODBC.pdf
"connection to the particular DBMS needs an ODBC driver : these may
come with the DBMS or the ODBC driver manager or be provided
separately by the DBMS developers, and there are third-party
developers"
Microsoft provides drivers for Ubuntu:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50419
You can add dsn entries to the /etc/odbc.ini file in most linux distros. See this for ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ODBC
Currently we are using the odbc driver to connect to our MS SQL Server. We however want to be able to pull a directory down to our local machine, make changes, and push back to the server. We are able to connect to the MS SQL Server from our server but we cannot make the connection from our local machines. Does anyone know how to do this? We want to still use the odbc driver as that is what we are using on our server for connections.
thanks!
You may not be able to connect to the Server via ODBC because of network issues. When you are creating your ODBC connection, have you tried to use the IP address of the SQL Server as opposed to the server name? You may also need to use the DOMAIN\Server syntax.
There are quite a number of potential reasons you cannot create the ODBC connection. This link addresses some of those issues:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/b479cb4a-99a8-437a-8796-7d9f77910ec8/cant-create-an-odbc-connection?forum=sqlexpress
Hope this helps. Let me know if you still have issues.
I'm building database application with delphi 2010 in which the database i used is ms access 2007 and ado as the connection....
then, i used installshield express from delphi 7 to do the deployment....
i open the setup file in my computer and there is no problem with it..but when i open the setup file in client computer, there is some error...
what makes me confused is what files needed to be added in the setup file for the deployment?
i've installed mdac 2.8 sp1 in the client, but it's still not working...
the error messages i got are : [microsoft][ODBC MIcrosoft Access Driver] general error unable to open registry key temporary (volatile) Ace DSN for process 0x16c8 thread 0x628 DBC 0x 3dc7eec
[micorsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified..
then, when i try to another client computer, the error message i got are: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]'(Unknown)' is not a valid path. Make sure that the path name is spelled correctly and that you are connected to the server on which the file resides
Exception EOle Exception in module 'module_name'.exe at 001A26AC
that's all the error messages i got... any clues?
Are you using the ACCDB format files? If so the version of ADO that comes with Windows knows nothing about that file format. You will need to install 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components I would suggest using an MDB format file unless you are using some of the Access 2007 specific features as ADO knows all about MDB format.
It's very doubtful you'd need to install MDAC on the client system so long as it's Windows XP SP3 or newer. Windows XP SP2 installed MDAC 2.8 SP1. So don't much with the ADO version. For some information on how ADO works at the version level see I've never quite trusted ADO because … That article is written from the Access perspective but should give you some useful information on ADO versioning.
Perhaps the ADO connection component in your app has it's Active property set to true, or is set to true on startup, but the connection string is not valid on client machines as opposed to your dev machine? In this case you would receive a connnection error.
Without the error message it's hard to tell as jachguate says, but theoretically you should not need anything additional to deploy it according to the information you have provided.
As already said, without more information, it's hard to tell.
Please read and follow the advices on writing a good question by Jon Skeet.
It will boost your chances of getting an actionable answer...
Three basic things you need for connecting to Access:
the Data access layer: you should have it covered with installing MDAC.
the DB itself: either you create it from your application or the DB must already exist on the target machine. If not, you must deploy the DB files.
the connection to the DB: you must ensure the ConnectionString is valid for the target machine and you don't try to connect or activate any dataset before it is checked.
This is working now.
I installed 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components as Tony recommended, then I also added midas.dll to system32 on the client computer.