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Microsoft Excel features calculations, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language that allows users to work with data in many of the ways that suit their needs, whether on a Windows machine or a Macintosh machine. This article walks through creating a DSN for SQL Analysis Services data in iODBC and accessing SQL Analysis Services data in Microsoft Excel, all on a machine running Mac OS X.
Installing the CData ODBC Drivers on Mac OS X
The CData ODBC Driver for SQL Analysis Services is preconfigured for the iODBC driver manager, as are many other products like Microsoft Excel. This makes the driver easy to use with these tools.
Licensing the Driver
In a terminal run the following commands to license the driver. To activate a trial license, omit the key input.
Defining a DSN for iODBC with odbc.ini
You can define ODBC data sources in sections in the odbc.ini file. User data sources can only be accessed by the user account whose home folder the odbc.ini is located in. System data sources can be accessed by all users. You can find the correct odbc.ini in the following paths:| Privileges | Path |
|---|---|
| User | /Users/myuser/Library/ODBC/odbc.ini |
| System | /Library/ODBC/odbc.ini |
Modifying iODBC's system-wide settings requires elevated permissions; to do so, you can use following to open a text editor from the terminal:
To connect, provide authentication and set the Url property to a valid SQL Server Analysis Services endpoint. You can connect to SQL Server Analysis Services instances hosted over HTTP with XMLA access. See the Microsoft documentation to configure HTTP access to SQL Server Analysis Services.
To secure connections and authenticate, set the corresponding connection properties, below. The data provider supports the major authentication schemes, including HTTP and Windows, as well as SSL/TLS.
- HTTP Authentication
Set AuthScheme to 'Basic' or 'Digest' and set User and Password. Specify other authentication values in CustomHeaders.
- Windows (NTLM)
Set the Windows User and Password and set AuthScheme to 'NTLM'.
- Kerberos and Kerberos Delegation
To authenticate with Kerberos, set AuthScheme to NEGOTIATE. To use Kerberos delegation, set AuthScheme to KERBEROSDELEGATION. If needed, provide the User, Password, and KerberosSPN. By default, the data provider attempts to communicate with the SPN at the specified Url.
- SSL/TLS:
By default, the data provider 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 access any cube as a relational table: When you connect the data provider retrieves SSAS metadata and dynamically updates the table schemas. Instead of retrieving metadata every connection, you can set the CacheLocation property to automatically cache to a simple file-based store.
See the Getting Started section of the CData documentation, under Retrieving Analysis Services Data, to execute SQL-92 queries to the cubes.
When you configure the DSN, you may also want to set the Max Rows connection property. This will limit the number of rows returned, which is especially helpful for improving performance when designing reports and visualizations.
In addition to the connection properties required to connect to SSAS, the Driver property specifies either a driver definition in the odbcinst.ini file or the path to the driver library. Place your connection properties at the beginning of odbc.ini:
If you wish to authenticate using OAuth, you will need to add an additional connection property to ensure that the OAuth flow can execute properly:
Additionally, in the ODBC Data Sources section, the DSN must be set to a driver defined in the odbcinst.ini file. For example, below is the entry for the DSN created during the driver install:
Registering a DSN for iODBC with odbcinst.ini
You may need to modify the installed driver definition if you change the path to the driver library. To register an ODBC driver, modify the odbcinst.ini file. With iODBC, drivers can be available to only one user account or drivers can be available system wide. You can find the correct odbcinst.ini in the following paths:| Privileges | Path |
|---|---|
| User | /Users/myuser/Library/ODBC/odbcinst.ini |
| System | /Library/ODBC/odbcinst.ini |
Drivers are defined in sections in the odbcinst.ini file. The section name specifies the name of the driver. In this section, the Driver property specifies the path to the driver library. The driver library is the .dylib file located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory, by default in /Applications/CData ODBC Driver for SSAS.
The ODBC Drivers section must also contain a property with the driver name, set to 'Installed'.
Testing the Connection
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You can test your connection using the iODBC administrator.
Registering a DSN for iODBC with odbcinst.ini
You may need to modify the installed driver definition if you change the path to the driver library. To register an ODBC driver, modify the odbcinst.ini file. With iODBC, drivers can be available to only one user account or drivers can be available system wide. You can find the correct odbcinst.ini in the following paths:| Privileges | Path |
|---|---|
| User | /Users/myuser/Library/ODBC/odbcinst.ini |
| System | /Library/ODBC/odbcinst.ini |
Drivers are defined in sections in the odbcinst.ini file. The section name specifies the name of the driver. In this section, the Driver property specifies the path to the driver library. The driver library is the .dylib file located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory, by default in /Applications/CData ODBC Driver for SSAS.
The ODBC Drivers section must also contain a property with the driver name, set to 'Installed'.
Testing the Connection
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You can test your connection using the iODBC administrator.
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- Open a terminal and enter the following command to start the iODBC Administrator with the necessary permissions:
- On the Users tab, select CData SSAS Source.
- Click the Test button.
Accessing SQL Analysis Services Data from Microsoft Excel
You can use the DSN configured above to access SQL Analysis Services data from Microsoft Excel.
- Open Microsoft Excel and open a spreadsheet (new or existing).
- Navigate to the data ribbon and select New Database Query From Database
- Select the User or System DSN that you previously configured and click OK.
- Build your SQL query in the Microsoft Query wizard:
- Click Return Data to execute the query and pull data into Excel.
Using the CData ODBC Driver for SQL Analysis Services, you can easily pull your SQL Analysis Services data directly into Excel. Once there, you can leverage all of the powerful features native to Excel to analyze, report, transform your SQL Analysis Services data, and more!
This is the fourth in a series of articles showing how Adam Rosen uses four vintage Macs to read, recover, convert, transfer, and return files to his clients. Today he shares how he uses his Power Mac G4 Cube running OS X 10.4 Tiger.
The Power Mac G4 was one of Apple's most successful and longest-running series of machines. Spanning the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X and providing good value for the money, G4-based systems are still in use more than 15 years after the architecture debuted.
Yet not all models were smash hits on arrival. Rounding out my set of vintage Mac workhorses is one of the most iconic designs – and flops – in Macintosh history.
Steve Jobs loved cube-shaped computers. He first designed one for NeXT, a big black box that was an aesthetic marvel but a commercial failure. His second attempt for Apple fared similarly, but it has obtained collector status due to the beauty and novelty of the design.
The Power Mac G4 Cube is 8″ tall and passively cooled (like the slot-loading G3 iMacs) for nearly silent operation – fans are a longstanding peeve of Steve Jobs. However, limited expansion capability and a premium price led to slow sales as users felt bang for the buck was lacking. The Cube was discounted several times, then finally discontinued after a one-year run.
Apple got the small headless Mac tradeoff right a few years later with the Mac mini, itself one-third the size of the Cube with more power at a lower cost.
The Vintage Mac Museum Cube runs Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger and serves as the central file server for Oakbog and the Museum. Tiger is a good OS to use for a mixed-generation fileserver of this kind: Its version of AppleShare can communicate with versions of the Mac OS from System 7.5.3 through Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard!
You need to enable File Sharing on the Tiger-based system and then assign it a static IP address on your network. Newer Macs see the share via Bonjour, and older Macs can access things using AppleShare IP by entering the server's address in the Chooser. Both read and write access is supported.
The Cube contains my repository of pre-OS X Classic Mac software, over 7 GB worth of vintage word processors, graphics programs, database software, and utilities. Some of this is installed on the other workhorse machines – the Mac Plus, Quadra 840av, and WallStreet PowerBook – with the remainder accessible when needed. The Cube also contains a shared folder within which I copy the elements for file transfer and conversion work – original files, intermediate stages, and final versions.
With this set of machines I can read and copy files from nearly any Mac generation and common storage format – floppy disk, hard drive, Zip and Jaz, MO cartridges, etc. Really old files from the Mac Plus get relayed to the Quadra via LocalTalk and from there to the Cube via ethernet. The WallStreet handles most of the file conversions, and once work is completed, files can be copied to my Mac Pro to burn to CD or be left on the Cube for direct access via FTP.
This last capability of the Lucite Wonder is handled by Rumpus FTP server software, which provides both FTP and HTTP (web based) access to files for upload and download. I have a static IP address on the internet and a domain name registered for the server. This lets me get from the Mac Plus to the Internet in only two hops – not bad at all!
Who says there's no life left in older machines?
This article was originally published on Adam's Vintage Mac Museum Blog. It has been adapted and reprinted here with his permission.
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