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⇱ Connect to Amazon Athena from Asprova with CData ODBC Driver for Amazon Athena

Connect to Amazon Athena from Asprova with CData ODBC Driver for Amazon Athena

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
This article shows how to connect faster to Amazon Athena data from Asprova.

The CData ODBC driver for Amazon Athena enables you to access Amazon Athena data from Asprova. In this article, you will import Amazon Athena data into item data in Asprova as an example.

About Amazon Athena Data Integration

CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from Amazon Athena. Customers use CData connectivity to:

  • Authenticate securely using a variety of methods, including IAM credentials, access keys, and Instance Profiles, catering to diverse security needs and simplifying the authentication process.
  • Streamline their setup and quickly resolve issue with detailed error messaging.
  • Enhance performance and minimize strain on client resources with server-side query execution.

Users frequently integrate Athena with analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, and Excel for in-depth analytics from their preferred tools.

To learn more about unique Amazon Athena use cases with CData, check out our blog post: https://www.cdata.com/blog/amazon-athena-use-cases.


Getting Started


Asprova setting

  1. Click File -> Data I/O Settings.

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  2. Double click the header of Item and open the Edit I/O dialog.

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  3. Select "No" from the RDB transaction combo box and close the dialog.

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Data driver setting

  1. Select "OLE DB" from combo box in "Data source" column.

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  2. Click button in Folder/database column and open the Data Link Property dialog. Select "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers" from the list of data provider.

  3. Select the Connection tab. Check "Use data source name" and select "CData Amazon Athena Source" from DSN combo box.

  4. Click the Test Connection button and make sure you see the message "Connection successful".

Schema setting

  1. Click the button in "External table name" column and open the Table List dialog. Make sure tables in Amazon Athena are listed in the dialog.

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  2. Click the button in "Field mapping" column and open the Item-Field Mapping dialog.

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  3. Open the context menu in the space between tables and click Delete All. Link corresponding fields by dragging mouse.

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  4. Click File > Import and data will be imported into Asprova.

Check data

Click Table View > Item. Be sure you can see the item data stored in Amazon Athena.

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Amazon Athena ODBC Driver

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

Access Amazon Athena interactive query services data like you would a database, through a standard ODBC Driver interface.