Connect to SAP Business Warehouse Data in DBArtisan

The CData ODBC Driver for SAP Business Warehouse seamlessly integrates SAP Business Warehouse data into database management tools like DBArtisan by enabling you to access SAP Business Warehouse data as a database. This article shows how to create an data source for SAP Business Warehouse in DBArtisan and execute queries. You can then edit data visually and execute standard SQL.

Integrate SAP Business Warehouse Data into DBArtisan Projects

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 connect to SAP Business Warehouse, set the URL property to a valid SAP Business Warehouse server base URL. The driver must connect to SAP Business Warehouse instances hosted over HTTP with XMLA access.

The driver supports the following authentication schemes via the AuthScheme property:

• None: Anonymous authentication, if available on the server.
• Basic: Set User and Password and set AuthScheme to Basic.
• Kerberos: See the Using Kerberos section of the help documentation for the required Kerberos properties.

By default, the driver attempts to negotiate SSL/TLS by checking the server's certificate against the system's trusted certificate store. To specify another certificate, see the SSLServerCert property for the available formats.

You can then follow the steps below to register SAP Business Warehouse data as a database instance in your project:

1. In DBArtisan, click Data Source -> Register Datasource.
2. Select Generic ODBC.
3. Enter a name for the data source and select the DSN.
4. Finish the wizard to connect to SAP Business Warehouse data. SAP Business Warehouse entities are displayed in the Datasource Explorer.

You can now work with SAP Business Warehouse data as you work with any other database. See the driver help documentation for more information on the queries supported by the SAP Business Warehouse API.