Simplest Way to Test ODBC on WIndows

Question

With unixODBC you can use a simple command line utility called \"isql\" to test your connection and permissions of some queries. Without having to write extra code or instal

Answer 1

For ad hoc queries, the ODBC Test utility is pretty handy. Its design and interface is more oriented toward testing various parts of the ODBC API. But it works quite nicely for running queries and showing the output. It is part of the Microsoft Data Access Components.

To run a query, you can click the connect button (or use ctrl-F), choose a data source, type a query, then ctrl-E to execute it and ctrl-R to display the results (e.g., if it is a SELECT or something that returns a cursor).