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⇱ How to Query Odoo Data in MySQL Workbench

How to Query Odoo Data in MySQL Workbench

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Execute MySQL queries against live Odoo data from MySQL Workbench.

You can use the SQL Gateway from the ODBC Driver for Odoo to query Odoo data through a MySQL interface. Follow the procedure below to start the MySQL remoting service of the SQL Gateway and work with live Odoo data in MySQL Workbench.

About Odoo Data Integration

Accessing and integrating live data from Odoo has never been easier with CData. Customers rely on CData connectivity to:

  • Access live data from both Odoo API 8.0+ and Odoo.sh Cloud ERP.
  • Extend the native Odoo features with intelligent handling of many-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many data properties. CData's connectivity solutions also intelligently handle complex data properties within Odoo. In addition to columns with simple values like text and dates, there are also columns that contain multiple values on each row. The driver decodes these kinds of values differently, depending upon the type of column the value comes from:
    • Many-to-one columns are references to a single row within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-one columns are represented as integers, whose value is the ID to which they refer in the other model.
    • Many-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-many columns are represented as text containing a comma-separated list of integers. Each value in that list is the ID of a row that is being referenced.
    • One-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model - they are similar to many-to-many columns (comma-separated lists of integers), except that each row in the referenced model must belong to only one in the main model.
  • Use SQL stored procedures to call server-side RFCs within Odoo.

Users frequently integrate Odoo with analytics tools such as Power BI and Qlik Sense, and leverage our tools to replicate Odoo data to databases or data warehouses.


Getting Started


Connect to Odoo Data

If you have not already done so, provide values for the required connection properties in the data source name (DSN). You can use the built-in Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to configure the DSN. This is also the last step of the driver installation. See the "Getting Started" chapter in the help documentation for a guide to using the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure a DSN.

To connect, set the Url to a valid Odoo site, User and Password to the connection details of the user you are connecting with, and Database to the Odoo database.

Configure the SQL Gateway

See the SQL Gateway Overview to set up connectivity to Odoo data as a virtual MySQL database. You will configure a MySQL remoting service that listens for MySQL requests from clients. The service can be configured in the SQL Gateway UI.

👁 Creating a MySQL Remoting Service in SQL Gateway (Salesforce is shown)

Query Odoo from MySQL Workbench

The steps below outline connecting to the virtual Odoo database created in the SQL Gateway from MySQL Workbench and issuing basic queries to work with live Odoo data.

Connect to Odoo through the SQL Gateway

  1. In MySQL Workbench, click to add a new MySQL connection.
  2. Name the connection (CData SQL Gateway for Odoo).
  3. Set the Hostname, Port, and Username parameters to connect to the SQL Gateway.
  4. Click Store in Vault to set and store the password.
  5. Click Test Connection to ensure the connection is configured properly and click OK.

NOTE: When we refer to Username and Password, we mean the credentials for the user(s) created for the SQL Gateway.

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Query Odoo Data

  1. Open the connection you just created (CData SQL Gateway for Odoo).
  2. Click File -> New Query Tab.
  3. Write a SQL query to retrieve Odoo data, like SELECT * FROM `CData Odoo Sys`.res_users;
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With access to live Odoo data from MySQL Workbench, you can easily work with Odoo, just like you would a MySQL database. Get started now with a free, 30-day trial of the CData ODBC Driver for Odoo and the CData SQL Gateway.

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