FileMaker Pro Connectivity Options By Actual Technologies - Mac ODBC

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With Actual Technologies ODBC drivers, you can quickly and easily connect to your SQL database. Our drivers let you import data from a wide variety of popular databases, including MS Access and PostgreSQL.

With FileMaker External SQL Source (ESS) feature, you can transparently view and update SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL data without writing any SQL code. And now you can use the Actual ESS Adapter to use ESS with Postgres (Mac and Windows) and DB2 (DB2 is Windows-only).

We’re here to support you. Take advantage of our FileMaker resources. All the pieces are falling into place.

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What is an ODBC driver?

You can think of an ODBC driver as being similar to a printer driver. Just as you need to have the right printer driver installed for your application to be able to use your printer, FileMaker Pro needs the right ODBC driver to be installed in order to connect to your database.

And just like you need to use the Printer Setup Utility to configure your printer before you can use it, you will need to use the ODBC Manager utility to configure your ODBC connection before FileMaker Pro can connect to your database.

Scenarios

• Setting up a table with ESS
• Importing data from MS Access

Resources

• 30 day trial license
• Which license edition I need?
• FAQ
• FileMaker Inc ESS website
• Beezwax Oracle Cloud article
• ESS with Wordpress video

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