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Use CData drivers and PolyBase to create an external data source in SQL Server 2019 with access to live Odoo data.
PolyBase for SQL Server allows you to query external data by using the same Transact-SQL syntax used to query a database table. When paired with the CData ODBC Driver for Odoo, you get access to your Odoo data directly alongside your SQL Server data. This article describes creating an external data source and external tables to grant access to live Odoo data using T-SQL queries.
NOTE: PolyBase is only available on SQL Server 19 and above, and only for Standard SQL Server.
The CData ODBC drivers offer unmatched performance for interacting with live Odoo data using PolyBase due to optimized data processing built into the driver. When you issue complex SQL queries from SQL Server to Odoo, the driver pushes down supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to Odoo and utilizes the embedded SQL engine to process unsupported operations (often SQL functions and JOIN operations) client-side. And with PolyBase, you can also join SQL Server data with Odoo data, using a single query to pull data from distributed sources.
About Odoo Data Integration
Accessing and integrating live data from Odoo has never been easier with CData. Customers rely on CData connectivity to:
- Access live data from both Odoo API 8.0+ and Odoo.sh Cloud ERP.
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Extend the native Odoo features with intelligent handling of many-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many data properties. CData's connectivity solutions also intelligently handle complex data properties within Odoo. In addition to columns with simple values like text and dates, there are also columns that contain multiple values on each row. The driver decodes these kinds of values differently, depending upon the type of column the value comes from:
- Many-to-one columns are references to a single row within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-one columns are represented as integers, whose value is the ID to which they refer in the other model.
- Many-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-many columns are represented as text containing a comma-separated list of integers. Each value in that list is the ID of a row that is being referenced.
- One-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model - they are similar to many-to-many columns (comma-separated lists of integers), except that each row in the referenced model must belong to only one in the main model.
- Use SQL stored procedures to call server-side RFCs within Odoo.
Users frequently integrate Odoo with analytics tools such as Power BI and Qlik Sense, and leverage our tools to replicate Odoo data to databases or data warehouses.
Getting Started
Connect to Odoo
If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs. To create an external data source in SQL Server using PolyBase, configure a System DSN (CData Odoo Sys is created automatically).
To connect, set the Url to a valid Odoo site, User and Password to the connection details of the user you are connecting with, and Database to the Odoo database.
Click "Test Connection" to ensure that the DSN is connected to Odoo properly. Navigate to the Tables tab to review the table definitions for Odoo.
Create an External Data Source for Odoo Data
After configuring the connection, you need to create a master encryption key and a credential database for the external data source.
Creating a Master Encryption Key
Execute the following SQL command to create a new master key, 'ENCRYPTION,' to encrypt the credentials for the external data source.
CREATE MASTER KEY ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'password';
Creating a Credential Database
Execute the following SQL command to create credentials for the external data source connected to Odoo data.
NOTE: IDENTITY and SECRET correspond with the User and Password properties for Odoo.
CREATE DATABASE SCOPED CREDENTIAL odoo_creds WITH IDENTITY = 'odoo_username', SECRET = 'odoo_password';
Create an External Data Source for Odoo
Execute a CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE SQL command to create an external data source for Odoo with PolyBase:
- Set the LOCATION parameter , using the DSN and credentials configured earlier.
For Odoo, set SERVERNAME to the URL or address for your server (e.g. 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' for local servers; the remote URL for remote servers). Leave PORT empty. PUSHDOWN is set to ON by default, meaning the ODBC Driver can leverage server-side processing for complex queries.
CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE cdata_odoo_source WITH ( LOCATION = 'odbc://SERVER_URL', CONNECTION_OPTIONS = 'DSN=CData Odoo Sys', -- PUSHDOWN = ON | OFF, CREDENTIAL = odoo_creds );
Create External Tables for Odoo
After creating the external data source, use CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE statements to link to Odoo data from your SQL Server instance. The table column definitions must match those exposed by the CData ODBC Driver for Odoo. You can refer to the Tables tab of the DSN Configuration Wizard to see the table definition.
Sample CREATE TABLE Statement
The statement to create an external table based on a Odoo res_users would look similar to the following:
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE res_users( name [nvarchar](255) NULL, email [nvarchar](255) NULL, ... ) WITH ( LOCATION='res_users', DATA_SOURCE=cdata_odoo_source );
Having created external tables for Odoo in your SQL Server instance, you are now able to query local and remote data simultaneously. Thanks to built-in query processing in the CData ODBC Driver, you know that as much query processing as possible is being pushed to Odoo, freeing up local resources and computing power. Download a free, 30-day trial of the ODBC Driver for Odoo and start working with live Odoo data alongside your SQL Server data today.