Extracting data using an ODBC connection in SSIS

  • Hi All,

    I need some help. I have Visual Studio 2008 setup on my machine and I just recently got my admin to setup an ODBC connection for me so I can start to access some data from a third parties database. I tested the connection in the connection manager and everything works. I created a new package, dragged over a data flow task, opened the task and was ready to begin creating my ODBC source. Then I realized in the toolbox there is no option for ODBC source!

    Is there a work around for this? I searched the internet for help and see that 2012 and 2014 versions do have an ODBC source in the toolbox.

    Can anyone please help me out so I can use this ODBC connection as my source so I can start building my mappings?

    Thanks

  • You need to use the ADO.NET connection manager instead of the ODBC connection manager (yeah, obvious right? :-D)

    In the ADO.NET connection manager you can select the ".NET providers\ODBC Data provider" provider.

    Then you can use the ADO.NET source/destination to get your data.

    An article with a lot of screenshots:

    Using ODBC and ADO.Net to Connect SSIS to DB2

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  • Ugh, that wasn't too bad 😀 Thank you for your help.

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