Features

• Direct Connection - Database applications can establish a connections directly. Direct Connection gives your applications an advantage - connect directly via TCP/IP without any additional libraries or client tools. That improves performance of your applications, their quality, reliability and especially the deployment process.
• Integration - The driver is compatible with 3rd-party data analysis tools, such as Microsoft Excel, and integrates with various IDEs and systems like Visual Studio, etc.
• Platforms Variety - The driver can be used with 32-bit and 64-bit applications on both platforms, so there is no need to configure the driver, applications or environment.
• Fully Unicode-Compliant Driver - You can retrieve and modify any data in multilingual SQL Azure databases regardless of their character set: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Chinese, etc., and in any language environment.
• Cost-Effective Deployment - A standalone installation file that doesn't require the user to deploy and configure any additional software such as a database client or a vendor library. Deployment costs are reduced drastically, especially when using the silent install method with an OEM license in large organizations that have hundreds of machines.
• Secure Connection - Work with SQL Azure securely using SSL connection options provided in our driver along with the support for SSL protocol. You can also connect to SQL Azure securely via SSH tunnel. SSH protocol is one of the most reliable protocols for data encryption.
• Advanced Data Conversion - Advanced Data Conversion mechanisms have been implemented that provide bi-directional mapping between any SQL Azure and ODBC data types.
• ODBC Conformance - The driver provides full support for the ODBC interface, its functions, and data types. It offers advanced connection string parameters and allows any ODBC compliant desktop or web application to connect to SQL Azure from various environments and platforms.
• Bulk Updates - You can perform bulk updates to SQL Azure database by combining SQL statements into batches, thus simplifying and speeding up large data modification to SQL Azure.
• High Performance - Every operation with SQL Azure becomes significantly faster using features such as local data caching, connection pooling, and much more.
• Verified Compatibility With Data Integration Tools - Devart ODBC drivers are verified to be compatible with leading analytics and reporting tools, various IDEs, and programming languages. Get fast and secure access to your data in any application:
  • Database Management Software
    • SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
    • Microsoft Access
    • DBeaver
    • RazorSQL
    • and others
  • Business Intelligence & Analytics Software
    • Power BI
    • Tableau
    • QlikView
    • TIBCO Spotfire
    • and others
  • Document Management Software
    • Microsoft Excel
    • LibreOffice
    • OpenOffice
    • StarOffice
    • and others
  • Application Development Tools
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
    • Python, PHP
    • FileMaker
    • C++ Builder
    • and others