Firebird ODBC Driver for DBeaver Connection

Accessing the Firebird database can be fast and seamless by using the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) solution. Providing full interoperability, the ODBC driver for Firebird allows you to access live Firebird data directly from DBeaver. It enables you to retrieve data to DBeaver, and review and modify these data right in this application.

Firebird Key Features

  • Open source
  • Low memory leakage problem
  • Support for multiple table types
  • Platform Independent

DBeaver Key Features

  • Multi-platform support
  • Extensive database support
  • SQL editor and query builder
  • Data visualization and analysis

What are some reasons to choose Devart ODBC Driver for Firebird?

Integration

Integration

The ODBC driver for Firebird is compatible with DBeaver allowing extraction of data by executing SQL statements.

Platforms Variety

Platforms Variety

ODBC Driver for Firebird can be used with 32-bit and 64-bit applications on both x32 and x64 platforms, so there is no need to additionally configure the driver, applications, or environment.

Fully Unicode-Compliant Driver

Fully Unicode-Compliant Driver

With our fully Unicode-compliant driver, you can properly retrieve and modify any data in multilingual Firebird databases, regardless of their character set: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Chinese, etc., and in any language environment.

How to Download, Install, and Configure the ODBC Driver for Firebird?

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Download the driver. Run the installer and follow the instructions in the wizard.
Activate the driver in ODBC Administrator. In the System DSN tab, click the Add button and select the needed driver. Click Finish.
To configure the DSN In the ODBC Data Source Administrator, move to the System DSN tab and select the installed ODBC driver. Click Add. In the appeared Create New Data Source dialog, insert the database connection data. You may test the connectivity by clicking the Test Connection button. To save the DSN, click Ok.
Tools

To install and configure an ODBC driver for Firebird on macOS, download first the PKG file from the Devart website. Run the downloaded file and follow the instructions in the wizard. After installing the driver, run the 64-bit or 86-bit iODBC utility, find the needed driver, and click Configure. In the dialog box that appears, specify the required connection settings and click OK. To establish a connection to the data source, click Test.

macos
Installation of ODBC driver on Ubuntu is carried out from the DEB package. Download the package that matches the bitness of your operating system.
Then open the folder with the downloaded package, double-click the DEB package, and click Install.
Open the Terminal and install the driver by using the following command.
If you use CentOC, you need to download the RPM package of the corresponding bitness.
After that, open the ‘Konsole’ and navigate to the folder with the downloaded package specifying the path to the folder as a parameter of the cd command. Then, install the driver by using the following commands.
Gui installation

To install the devartodbcfirebird_i386.deb on a 32-bit system, use:

use sudo dpkg -i devartodbcfirebird_i386.deb

To install the devartodbcfirebird_amd64.deb on a 64-bit system, use:

sudo dpkg -i devartodbcfirebird_amd64.deb

For more detailed information about installing and configuring an ODBC driver for Firebird on Ubuntu, go to the documentation.

cd ~/Downloads/

To install the devart-odbc-firebird.i386.rpm on a 32-bit system, use:

sudo -rpm -ivh devart-odbc-firebird.i386.rpm

To install the devart-odbc-firebird.x86_64.rpm on a 64-bit system, use:

sudo rpm -ivh devart-odbc-firebird.x86_64.rpm

For more detailed information about installing and configuring an ODBC driver for Firebird on Centos, go to the documentation.

Connect DBeaver to Firebird data source and access data in 3 simple steps

Install the driver and configure an ODBC data source in the driver settings

01. Install the driver and set up the ODBC data source in driver settings. Do not forget to set up the Ansi value for String Types option to prevent SQL_WVARCHAR issues.

Set up the data source
Start DBeaver and create a linked server

02. Start DBeaver, go to Database section of the navigation menu and create a New Database Connection. In connect to database window, select ODBC and proceed next.

Start DBeaver and create a database connection
Run a query against the data storage

03. Enter the previously configured DSN details into the Database/Schema field and proceed to Test Connection. This step will ensure that everything has been set up properly.

Run a query against the data storage

Advantages of Connectivity to Firebird from DBeaver via ODBC Driver

Secure Connection

Secure Connection

Every operation with Firebird becomes significantly faster using such capabilities of our driver as local data caching, connection pooling, and much more.

Working with DBeaver using Multiple Functions

Working with DBeaver using Multiple Functions

Using DBeaver, you can create tables, add data, select, delete, sort, edit, combine data from several database tables, and find unique values quickly and easily.

ODBC Conformance

ODBC Conformance

The driver fully supports the ODBC interface, its data types, and functions. It offers advanced connection string parameters and allows any ODBC-compliant desktop or web application to connect to Firebird from DBeaver on various platforms.

Simple SQL Querying on DBeaver Files

Simple SQL Querying on DBeaver Files

DBeaver processes SQL through its SQL dialect. Using ODBC connection, it is simple to execute different SQL queries to retrieve entire tables or specific columns from Excel, filter data, formate data, numbers, etc.

Cost-Effective Deployment

Cost-Effective Deployment

Installing the driver is easy with the standalone installation file. There is no need in deploying and configuring any additional software which results in a reduction in deployment costs.

Sharing Your Data with Excel

Sharing Your Data with DBeaver

You can share your data with other users in DBeaver quickly and easily. Upload your DBeaver data to the SharePoint lists so that it can be available for you and others to use to create reports, data models, dashboards, etc.

Popular DBeaver Integrations Using ODBC Driver

  • All sources
  • Database
  • Cloud

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