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

Access Quickbase data like you would a database - read, write, and update Quickbase Applications, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

Query Quickbase Data through ODBC in Node.js



Use node-odbc to execute SQL queries against Quickbase data from Node.js.

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment that allows you to run JavaScript code outside of a browser. With the CData ODBC Driver for Quickbase, you can access live Quickbase data from Node.js apps and scripts. In this article, we walk through installing node-odbc and the required tools to create a simple Node.js app with access to live Quickbase data.

With built-in optimized data processing, the CData ODBC Driver offers unmatched performance for interacting with live Quickbase data in Node.js. When you issue complex SQL queries from Node.js to Quickbase, the driver pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to Quickbase and utilizes the embedded SQL engine to process unsupported operations client-side (often SQL functions and JOIN operations).

Connecting to Quickbase Data

If you have not already done so, provide values for the required connection properties in the data source name (DSN). You can use the built-in Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to configure the DSN. This is also the last step of the driver installation. See the "Getting Started" chapter in the help documentation for a guide to using the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure a DSN.

User Authentication Method

To authenticate with user credentials, specify the following connection properties:

  1. Set the User and Password.
  2. If your application requires an ApplicationToken;, you must provide it otherwise an error will be thrown. You can find the ApplicationToken under SpecificApp > Settings > App management > App properties > Advanced settings > Security options > Manage Application Token.

User Token Authentication

To authenticate with a user token, specify the following connection properties:

  1. Set UserToken and you are ready to connect. You can find the UserToken under Quick Base > My Preferences > My User Information > Manage User Tokens.

Building node-odbc

In order to connect to Quickbase through the CData ODBC Driver, you need to build node-odbc manually (after installing the required tools).

Installing the Required Tools

The following commands install the tools required to build node-odbc (note the -g parameter, which installs the tools globally).

npm i -g windows-build-tools
npm i -g node-gyp

Building node-odbc

After installing the required tools, create a directory for the Node.js app and install odbc (which builds the binary for us to use in our Node.js script).

mkdir nodeodbc
cd nodeodbc
npm i -g node

Querying Quickbase from Node.js

With the ODBC Driver installed, a DSN Configured, and node-odbc built, we are ready to query live Quickbase data from a Node.js app. The sample code below connects to a specific DSN and queries the SampleTable_1 table.

myscript.js

const odbc = require('odbc');

async function queryQuickBase() {
    const connection = await odbc.connect(`DSN=CData QuickBase Source`);
    const data = await connection.query('SELECT Id, Column1 FROM SampleTable_1');
    console.log(data);
}

queryQuickBase();

Once you write the app, use node to execute the script:

node myscript.js

Download a free, 30-day trial of the CData ODBC Driver for Quickbase and start working with your live Quickbase data in Node.js. Reach out to our Support Team if you have any questions.