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The Microsoft OneDrive ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from Microsoft OneDrive, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Microsoft OneDrive data like you would a database - read, write, and update Microsoft OneDrive Files, Changes, Apps, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Replicate Microsoft OneDrive Data from PowerShell


Write a quick PowerShell script to query Microsoft OneDrive data. Use connectivity to the live data to replicate Microsoft OneDrive data to SQL Server.



The CData ODBC Driver for Microsoft OneDrive enables out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft's built-in support for ODBC. The ODBC driver instantly integrates connectivity to the real Microsoft OneDrive data with PowerShell.

You can use the .NET Framework Provider for ODBC built into PowerShell to quickly automate integration tasks like replicating Microsoft OneDrive data to other databases. This article shows how to replicate Microsoft OneDrive data to SQL Server in 5 lines of code.

You can also write PowerShell code to download Microsoft OneDrive data. See the examples below.

Create an ODBC Data Source for Microsoft OneDrive

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.

OneDrive uses the OAuth authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, you will need to create an app to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties. See the OAuth section of the Help documentation for an authentication guide.

Connect to Microsoft OneDrive

The code below shows how to use the DSN to initialize the connection to Microsoft OneDrive data in PowerShell:

$conn = New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection $conn.ConnectionString = "DSN=CData OneDrive Source x64"

Back Up Microsoft OneDrive Data to SQL Server

After you enable caching, you can use the code below to replicate data to SQL Server.

Set the following connection properties to configure the caching database:

  • CacheProvider: The name of the ADO.NET provider. This can be found in the Machine.config for your version of .NET. For example, to configure SQL Server, enter System.Data.SqlClient.

  • CacheConnection: The connection string of properties required to connect to the database. Below is an example for SQL Server:

    Server=localhost;Database=RSB;User Id=sqltest;Password=sqltest;

The SQL query in the example can be used to refresh the entire cached table, including its schema. Any already existing cache is deleted.

$conn.Open() # Create and execute the SQL Query $SQL = "CACHE DROP EXISTING SELECT * FROM " + $Files $cmd = New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand($sql,$conn) $count = $cmd.ExecuteNonQuery() $conn.Close()

The driver gives you complete control over the caching functionality. See the help documentation for more caching commands and usage examples. See the help documentation for steps to replicate to other databases.

Other Operations

To retrieve Microsoft OneDrive data in PowerShell, call the Fill method of the OdbcDataAdapter method. To execute data manipulation commands, initialize the OdbcCommand object and then call ExecuteNonQuery. Below are some more examples commands to Microsoft OneDrive through the .NET Framework Provider for ODBC:

Retrieve Microsoft OneDrive Data

$sql="SELECT Id, Name from Files" $da= New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcDataAdapter($sql, $conn) $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable $da.Fill($dt) $dt.Rows | foreach { $dt.Columns | foreach ($col in dt{ Write-Host $1[$_] } }