[Sqlite3 Odbc Driver For Mac
Luther Lazaro
I'd like to import that data contained in a sqlite file to PowerPivot. I downloaded an ODBC driver for sqlite ( -werner.de/sqliteodbc/) to accomplish this. In PowerPivot I selected "Home" > "Get External Data" > "From Other Sources". I scrolled down to "Others (OLEDB/ODBC). Selected it and clicked next.
The test connection failed because the provider could not be initialized. If you contact Microsoft support about this error, provide the following message: Faile to connect to server. Reason: Provider information is missing from the connection string. Add the provider information and try again.
Step 2: Create a DNS by opening Windows' 'ODBC Data Sources Administrator' (you can find it under Windows > Administrative Tools). See here and here for more information. I have tried creating the DNS under both 'User DNS' and 'System DNS' - both work fine with Power Pivot.
Click 'From other Sources' > 'Others (OLEDB/ODBC)' > Click on 'Build' button >Under 'Provider' tab > Select 'MS OLE DB Provider for ODBC Sources' > In 'Use Data Source Name', select your DNS created in Step 2 and add any other parameters. At this point, you can test the connection and it should say 'Test Connection Succeeded'
I have software that is connected using the SQLite3 ODBC driver ( -werner.de/sqliteodbc/). I have previously loaded extensions into this driver without any problems. A previous working example was a trigger that updated columns [using triggers] using some trig functions that are not part of base SQLite functionality - I built the *.so extension and pointed SQLite to it as part of the ODBC connection and everything worked fine - when I connect/export data from the software I got no issues.
However I cannot seem to get the Spatialite extension to load properly as part of the ODBC connection - and I am using a trigger that builds the geometry column of a Spatialite database based on the software providing only x and y values. I get an error that says "Extension C:\windows\system32\libspatialite-2.dll did not load: the specified module could not be found". I also tried the spatialite-4.dll and it doesn't work either. The module and its requirements are located there and the environmental path has (always) been there. If I do not load the extension then I will get an error when the trigger calls a function (makegeometry, makepoint or whatever you want) that is not part of the SQLite driver - it doesn't understand the function.
My hack workaround at this point are batch files that run what the trigger should do after the data has transferred from the software to the Spatialite database, but I'd prefer it to be a one-stop shop.
I haven't seen this much on the web, other than a Google Groups question ( !topic/spatialite-users/3ImfXm7cdpU) that didn't resolve the problem [I haven't tried to build the CppDB yet - I want to see if there is a more lazy straightforward solution].
Oddly enough I had already done the first step - so just adding c:\spatialite\bin to my odbc dll extension is all I needed to do. It's the little things sometimes. I also had already added that location to my PATH environmental variable - but I did a quick test and it doesn't appear to be a requirement.
Open up the odbcinst.ini in an editor (you will probably need superuser abilities, and you will need to know where the file is -- usually it is in /etc, so we can do: sudo gedit /etc/odbcinst.ini), and add the following:
Set up Description with any string you'd like, but make sure Driver and Setup have the right paths to the *.so provided by install the sqliteodbc driver. In order to figure out/confirm which *.so were provided: either grep or just open up /usr/local/lib/ and check out which *.so files you have. For instance, according to the example in the instruction, you should point to /usr/local/lib/libsqliteodbc.so, but I only had /usr/local/lib/libsqlite3odbc.so. If you have both, you could make two entries like so:
Note that for Driver key, I referred to the tag I gave the driver in odbcinst.ini. Maybe you want to be goofy, maybe you don't -- the point is that the key depends on what you set up, or what some other program automatically set up, so if you need to know what the Driver is called, look it up in odbcinst.ini.
You need to install a SQLite ODBC driver (look here: -werner.de/sqliteodbc) on your local machine. Then "Get Data" - "ODBC" and enter "database=C:\mysqlite.db" as connection string. This works at least for the PowerBI Desktop.
This even works in the PowerBi service: Publish the report in the service. Install a gateway on the same machine who has the ODBC connection. Make sure this machine is powered ON and the same user who used the ODBC connection is logged on and the PowerBi Service can refresh your data via the gateway. This is working stable in our organization for a couple of years now. The only downside: the user needs to be logged in on the Machine with the Gateway for the ODBC refresh to work. Other platforms (SQL server) might not have this problem, however we do not feel the need to change our setup, since ODBC connection works like a charm in our environment (with SAS software creating the dataset and PowerBi reporting it).
Yep - I realized that. But what do you actually mean by "embedded"? The sqlite.db is just a file. Of cause you need to have the proper protocol to understand the data - and this might not be obvious to the PBI Service, since sqlite isn't directly supported. But the same issue occurs with Microsoft Access databases and I actually expected the PBI Service to know how to handle their own proprietary format?
The last step to make the PowerBi Cloud Service connect to the SQLite database is to install the gateway on the machine with the ODBC to SQLite. Test it, and all is done: you can automatically refresh your PowerBi information.
There are 2 main implementations of ODBC for Linux: UnixODBC ( ) and iODBC ( ); we picked the former for no particular reason.
The driver manager can be installed as root through the standard package management tool in Debian:
Each time an ODBC driver is installed, it updates the file /etc/odbcinst.ini with driver-dependent information, which can later be checked using the above command odbcinst, e.g.:
List the installed ODBC drivers:
Everything works as expected.
We have completed the steps to access an SQLite database via ODBC from isql and from the python module pyodbc. It was quite straightforward with that RDBMS. Once the gawk interface is completed, it should return the same output.
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Right now we have to write two scripts... one for sql server database and one for sqlite database ... then take the output from each in the same format and put them each in their own OpenOffice spreadsheet file. Finally, we compare the two files to see if there are any differences. Perhaps there's a better way to do this.
Hi Yes it is possible to open any sql server from within management studio when you have the correct odbc driver to do so.Create an ODBC connection to the *.db3 file and call it something like SQLite then try this is a query window
The OP is asking for a way to query between DBs and so I understand the linked server responses. However, if you're here because you simply want to open an SQLite db with MSSMS, it's a lot easier than that.
Call me lazy, but all of these answers are kind of laborious and/or require things you may not want to do, have access to do in every case, or are just the wrong thing to do if all you are looking for is something better than DB Browser For SQLite such as MSSMS.
NOTE: If you get an "access is denied" error when extracting the contents, then extract the .vsix contents into a temporary folder the archiver can extract to. Finally, copy the files into the new directory created in step 2.
Connect to your database and then navigate through "Server Objects", "Linked Servers" and add a new linked server. You can then use SQL Server to query the SQLite database, and compare the results directly.
Here is what I think some people are missing in the instructions from Daniel Henry. The file you download has a .vsix file extension. For example "SSMSToolbox.vsix". That extension may not be associated with archive programs like 7zip, winrar, etc.. I use winrar. So what I did was just change the name "SSMSToolbox.vsix" to "SSMSToolbox.vsix.rar". At that point I was able to right-click the file and WinRar and Extract the files within to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18\Common7\IDE\Extensions\SqlCeToolbox". Restarted SSMS and click "View" and you will see it there.
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