Contents I Table of Contents Part I What's New 1 Part II General Information 3 1 Overvie..w... .............................................................................................................................. 4 2 Feature..s.. ............................................................................................................................... 5 3 Compa.t.i.b..i.l.i.t.y.. ........................................................................................................................ 7 4 Requir.e..m...e..n..t.s. ....................................................................................................................... 9 5 Licensi.n..g.. .............................................................................................................................. 9 6 Gettin.g.. .S...u..p..p..o..r.t. .................................................................................................................. 13 Part III Using ODBC Driver 14 1 Install.a..t.i.o..n.. .......................................................................................................................... 14 Window s .......................................................................................................................................................... 15 Window s Sile.n...t. ..................................................................................................................................................... 18 macOS .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 Linux DEB Pac..k..a..g..e... ............................................................................................................................................... 27 Linux RPM Pa.c..k..a..g...e.. .............................................................................................................................................. 31 2 Produ.c..t. .A..c..t.i.v..a..t.i.o..n.. .............................................................................................................. 33 Obtaining Act.i.v..a..t.i.o...n.. .K..e...y.. ..................................................................................................................................... 34 Activation on .W....i.n..d..o...w...s.. ........................................................................................................................................ 34 Activation on .m....a..c..O...S.. ............................................................................................................................................ 38 Activation on .L...i.n..u..x.. ............................................................................................................................................... 38 Where to See. .t..h..e.. .L...i.c..e..n..s...e.. .I.n..f..o..r..m...a..t..i.o..n..?... ......................................................................................................... 39 3 Conne..c..t.i.n..g.. .t.o.. .I.n..t.e..r.B..a..s..e.. ..................................................................................................... 42 4 Conne..c..t.i.o..n.. .S..t.r.i.n..g.. .O...p..t.i.o..n..s. .................................................................................................. 44 5 OTW .E..n..c.r..y.p..t.i.o..n.. .................................................................................................................. 46 6 Sandb..o..x..e..d.. .A..p..p..s.. .o..n.. .m...a..c..O..S.. ............................................................................................... 48 7 Using. .w..i.t.h.. .i.O...D..B..C... ............................................................................................................... 50 8 Enabl.i.n..g.. .O..D...B..C.. .T..r.a..c..i.n..g.. ...................................................................................................... 50 9 Suppo..r.t.e..d.. .D...a..t.a.. .T..y.p..e..s.. ........................................................................................................ 52 10 Suppo..r.t.e..d.. .O...D..B..C... .A..P..I. .F..u..n..c..t.i.o..n..s. .......................................................................................... 53 Part IV Using in Third-Party Tools 62 1 Using. .i.n.. .D..B..e..a..v..e..r. ................................................................................................................ 62 2 Using. .i.n.. .O..r.a..c..l.e.. .D..B...L..i.n..k. ....................................................................................................... 67 3 Using. .i.n.. .M..i.c..r.o..s..o..f.t. .A..c..c..e..s.s.. ................................................................................................... 69 4 Using. .i.n.. .M..i.c..r.o..s..o..f.t. .E..x..c..e..l. ..................................................................................................... 71 5 Using. .i.n.. .S..Q..L.. .S...e..r.v..e..r. .M...a..n..a..g..e..m...e..n..t. .S..t.u..d..i.o.. .......................................................................... 77 Using in SSMS... ....................................................................................................................................................... 77 Troubleshoot..i.n..g.. .i.n... .S..S..M....S.. ................................................................................................................................... 82 © 2021 Devart II ODBC Driver for InterBase 6 Using. .i.n.. .O..p..e..n..O...f.f.i.c.e.. .a..n..d.. .L..i.b..r..e..O..f.f.i.c..e.. .................................................................................. 86 7 Using. .i.n.. .P..H..P.. ....................................................................................................................... 96 8 Using. .i.n.. .P..o..w...e..r. .B..I. ............................................................................................................... 98 9 Using. .i.n.. .P..y..t.h..o..n.. .................................................................................................................. 99 10 Using.. .i.n.. .Q...l.i.k..V..i.e..w... ............................................................................................................. 100 11 Using.. .i.n.. .S...S..I.S.. .................................................................................................................... 105 12 Using.. .i.n.. .T..a..b..l.e..a..u.. ............................................................................................................... 106 Using in Tab.l.e..a..u... ................................................................................................................................................. 106 Troubleshoo..t..i.n..g.. .i.n... .T..a..b..l.e...a..u.. .o..n... .m...a..c..O...S.. .......................................................................................................... 107 © 2021 Devart What's New 1 1 What's New 08-Jul-21 New features in ODBC Driver for InterBase 3.2 MSI installer for deploying through GPO is added 25-May-21 New features in ODBC Driver for InterBase 3.1 Over-the-Wire (OTW) encryption is supported Compatibility with macOS Big Sur is improved Compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is improved 04-Oct-19 New features in ODBC Driver for InterBase 3.0 Support for connection pooling is improved Improved compatibility with InterBase 6.x, 7.0 Improved compatibility with sandboxed applications for macOS Now ODBC driver activation does not require administrator privileges 08-Jan-19 New features in ODBC Driver for InterBase 3.0 Now ODBC driver for macOS is distributed as a PKG package Now ODBC driver for Linux is distributed as DEB and RPM packages Support for System Encryption Password (SEP) is added Possibility to force the ODBC 2.x behavior is added 14-Jun-18 New features in ODBC Driver for InterBase 2.2 Possibility to return String Types as Ansi or Unicode is added Compatibility with MS Access is improved Compatibility with Omnis Studio is improved Compatibility with Power Pivot is improved © 2021 Devart 2 ODBC Driver for InterBase Compatibility with DBeaver is improved 26-Feb-18 New features in ODBC Driver for InterBase 2.1 Performance of batch operations is significantly improved 23-Oct-2017 New features in ODBC Driver for InterBase 2.0 Support for Linux is added Support for macOS is added Support for InterBase 4.2 is added Compatibility with SAS JMP is improved Compatibility with MS Power Query is improved OUTER JOIN macros in SQL queries are supported DateTime macros in SQL queries are supported Scalar function macros in SQL queries are supported The ForceUsingDefaultPort connection parameter is added 26-Oct-16 New features in ODBC Driver for InterBase 1.4 Compatibility with MS Visual Studio Compatibility with MS FoxPro is improved Compatibility with MapInfo is improved Compatibility with Libre Office is improved Compatibility with Qlik is improved Compatibility with Delphi & C++Builder is improved MS Access linked tables support is improved Compatibility with MS Access is improved Array data type support is improved Support of InterBase 6.x is improved 05-Apr-16 New features in ODBC Driver for InterBase © 2021 Devart What's New 3 1.3 Support for stored procedures and functions is improved Compatibility with MS Excel is improved Compatibility with ODBC 2.x is improved Backward compatibility of SQLExecDirect with ODBC 2.x is improved