ODBC Administrator


Introduction

The ODBC Administrator is an application which allows for the complete configuration of the ODBC system from a friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI). The principle tasks one can perform with the ODBC Administrator are;

The ODBC Administrator is depicted in "Figure 01". The appearance of the ODBC Administrator may vary slightly depending upon the desktop environment.

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Figure 01

Running ODBC Administrator

There are a number of ways to run the ODBC Administrator.

 Command-line

The ODBC Administrator can be invoked from the command-line as follows;

$ ODBCManageDataSourcesQ4
Figure 02

An alternative is to invoke it using the odbcinst command-line tool as follows;

$ odbcinst -m
Figure 03

Desktop

You may find that the easiest way to run the ODBC Administrator is to find it within your desktop menu/icon system such as the KDE 'start' menu.

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Peter Harvey