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Connect for ODBC Release Notes History

Progress DataDirect offers the industry’s only wire protocol ODBC drivers for Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, SQL Azure, Sybase, Salesforce, MySQL, Informix, OpenEdge, Hadoop Apache Hive and more.

 

New Service Pack Release 7.1.1:

 

Hadoop Apache Hive 

Hadoop Service Pack Update
  • Connect for ODBC for Apache Hive now support critical Hive improvements known as “Hive2”:
    • Support for multiple, concurrent connections
    • Optimized for BI !  Throughput matters in analytics scenarios that
      move large result sets
    • Support for plaintext authentication

 

New Certifications 

Cloudera CDH 4.1 certification
  • Cloudera is recognized as the Hadoop market leader
Platform Certification
  • Windows 8 and Server 2012
  • PostgreSQL 9.1
  • RedHat Linux 6.3

 

Salesforce.com

Enterprise Functionality
  • Salesforce API 26 update

 

SQL 

New ANSI SQL Support
  • Maximizes interoperability with existing BI and analytics tools:
    • BETWEEN clause
    • Quoted column aliases
    • Required by Oracle Gateway group
    • Support for all of HiveQL and select ANSI SQL syntax
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New ODBC Sybase IQ Driver!

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It's all about Cognos!

IBM certifies and recommends DataDirect ODBC for connecting IBM Cognos BI Server to data located in Microsoft SQL Server.

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Don't Forget About SAS!

SAS/ACCESS is highly functional, but with Connect for ODBC you can leverage more data sources on more platforms. The opportunities are endless!

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