| DBMS Notes |
Some of the databases and drivers tested with CompareData. Basic DBMS metadata support is limited to functionality available using ODBC catalog functions whereas extended DBMS metadata support adds support for additional features such as comparing triggers by accessing the DBMS information schema.
| DBMS | DBMS Ver | Driver | Driver Version | Test |
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| 4D | v11 | 4D v11 ODBC Driver | 11.03.00.00 |
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| Adabas D | 13.01 | Adabas D | 13.01.01.00 |
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| Advantage Database Server | 9.1 | Advantage StreamlineSQL ODBC | 9.10.00.09 |
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| ANTs Data Server | 3.6 | ANTS ODBC Driver | 3.00.00.00 | |
| Birdstep RDM Server | 7.0 | Birdstep ODBC for RDM Server 7.0 | 7.00.701.00 | |
| Caché | 5.0 | InterSystems ODBC | 5.00.5802.00 |
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| Easysoft ODBC-JDBC Gateway | 1.03.00.01 |
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| 2009.1.2 | InterSystems ODBC35 | 2009.01.02.602 |
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| Derby*, JavaDB | 10.5.3.0 | IBM DB2 ODBC DRIVER | 9.01.00.356 |
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| Daffodil | 4.1 | DaffodilDBDriver(*.ddb) | 1.00.00.01 | |
| Easysoft ODBC-JDBC Gateway | 1.03.00.01 | |
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| DB2 UDB* | 8.1.10.812 | IBM DB2 ODBC Driver | 8.01.10.812 |
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| 9 | 9.01.00.356 |
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| 9.07.100.177 |
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| DBISAM | 4.24 | DBISAM 4 ODBC Driver | 4.24.00.01 | |
| DBMaker | 4.2 | DBMaker Driver | 4.02.00.4721 |
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| EnterpriseDB* | 8.1 Release 2 | EnterpriseDB 8.1 | 8.01.04.19 |
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| PostgreSQL ANSI | 8.02.03.00 |
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| FairCom c-treeSQL Server | V8.14 | c-treeSQL ODBC Driver | 8.24.05.29 | |
| FileMaker Pro | 8 | DataDirect 32-BIT SequeLink 5.4 | 1.15.12.00 | |
| Firebird* | 2.0 | Firebird/InterBase(r) driver | 2.00.00.151 |
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| FrontBase | 4.2 | FrontBase ODBC | 1.20.00.85 | |
| 1.20.00.91 |
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| HSQLDB | 1.8.0.7 | Easysoft ODBC-JDBC Gateway/HSQLDB JDBC driver | 2.00.00.00 |
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| Informix IDS* | 10.0 | IBM Informix ODBC Driver | 2.90.00.12335 | |
| Ingres 9.2* | 9.2.0 | Ingres 9.2 | 3.50.920.90 | |
| InterBase* | 7.5 | Firebird/InterBase(r) driver MT | 2.00.00.136 | |
| Linter | 6.0.8 | Linter 6.0 Driver | 3.00.61.00 | |
| Matisse | 8.3.2 | Matisse DBMS | 8.03.02.00 | |
| MaxDB | 7.6 | SAP DB | 7.06.00.00 | |
| Microsoft Access | 2003 | Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb) | 4.00.6200.00 | |
| 2010 | Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb) | 14.00.4760.1000 |
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| Microsoft Excel | 2003 | Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls) | 4.00.6200.00 | |
| 2010 | Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xlsb) | 14.00.4760.1000 | |
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| Microsoft SQL Server* | 2000 | SQL Server | 2000.85.1132.00 |
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| 2005 | SQL Native Client | 2005.90.1399.00 | |
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| 2008 | SQL Server Native Client 10.0 | 2007.100.1600.22 |
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| 2012 | SQL Server Native Client 11.0 | 2011.110.2100.60 |
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| Mimer SQL | 9.2 | MIMER | 9.02.05.02 | |
| MySQL* | 5.0 | MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.5 | 3.51.29.00 |
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| MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1 | 5.01.09.00 |
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| MySQL ODBC 5.2a/w Driver | 5.02.02.00 |
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| Ocelot | 3.02 | OCELOT | 3.02.12.31 |
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| OpenLink Virtuoso | 4.5 | OpenLink Virtuoso (4.5) | 4.50.29.04 | |
| Oracle* | 19c | Oracle in OraDB19Home | 19.00.00.00 | |
| DataDirect 8.0 Oracle Wire Protocol | 8.00.02.2364 | |
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| 11g | Oracle in <oracle 11 home> | 11.01.00.06 |
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| 10g | Oracle in XE | 10.02.00.02 |
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| 10.02.00.03 |
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| DataDirect 5.2 Oracle Wire Protocol | 5.20.00.48 |
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| 9i | Oracle ODBC Driver | 9.02.00.65 |
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| Pervasive PSQL | 9.5 | Pervasive ODBC Client Interface | 9.50.77.02 | |
| PrimeBase | 4.2 | SNAP PRIMEBASE | 4.02.05.08 |
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| PostgreSQL* | 8.4 | PostgreSQL ANSI | 8.04.01.0100 | |
| SOLID Embedded Engine | 4.5 | SOLID ODBC Driver 4.5 - (ANSI) | 4.50.00.68 | |
| SQL Anywhere* | 9 | Adaptive Server Anywhere 9.0 | 9.00.02.3137 | |
| SQLBase | 9.0.1 | Gupta SQLBase | 9.00.01.13768 |
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| SQLite* | 3.6.23.1 | SQLite3 ODBC Driver | 0.86.00.00 | |
| 3.7.9 | 0.93.00.00 | |
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| Sybase* | 12.5 | DataDirect 5.1 Sybase Wire Protocol | 5.10.00.81 |
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| OpenLink Lite for SQL Server (TDS) (32-bit) | 5.20.76.00 |
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| 15 | DataDirect 5.2 Sybase Wire Protocol | 5.20.00.13 |
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| Adaptive Server Enterprise | 15.00.00.50 |
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| 15.0.0.152 |
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| Text Files | - | DataDirect 5.2 TextFile (*.*) | 5.20.00.20 |
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| Microsoft Text Driver (*.txt; *.csv) | 4.00.6304.00 |
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| Teradata | V2R5.0 | Teradata | 3.02.00.02 | |
| pass fair/issues failed/not
supported (32-bit, 64-bit) *Extended metadata support |
DB2
IBM DB2 ODBC Driver 8.01.10.812
SQL0443N with "SYSIBM:CLI:-805" when invoking a CLI catalog function after upgrading to DB2 UDB Version 8.1 FixPak 10
You must follow post FixPak installation instructions. See flash or section 1.3.5 in the FixPak Readme for detailed instructions.
IBM DB2 ODBC Driver 9.07.100.177
SQL Error. Native Code: 0, SQLState: IM004, Return Code: -1 [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver's SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed
A workaround is to run the application as an administrator in order to connect to DB2 using the ODBC driver in Windows 7.
DBISAM
DBISAM 4 ODBC Driver 4.24.00.01
Tables are not listed in a Tables/Views comparison unless Remote Client/Server mode is used to connect to the database.
FileMaker Pro
DataDirect 32-BIT SequeLink 5.4 1.15.12.00
Driver crashes saving synchronized data. Fixed in newest releases of DataDirect ODBC driver.
Firebird
SQL Error, SQLState: 08004, Return Code: -1 [ODBC Firebird Driver]Unavailable Database
Only one application can connect to the the embedded Firebird database at any one time. Note, however, that an application can have multiple connections to the same embedded database as long as all these connections are from the same instance of the application.
Solution: verify that no other applications are connected to the embedded repository database. You can use Windows Task Manager to scan for cmpdata.exe to ensure that only one instance of the application is connected to the embedded repository.
This error may also be due to another application using the embedded Firebird client (fbclient.dll) or if the database file does not exist.
If you want to have multiple applications connect to CompareData repository database at the same time, then you need to run Firebird as a Server and set up an ODBC data source for the repository database. You can download Firebird server from www.firebirdsql.com
Firebird/InterBase(r) driver 2.00.00.151
This driver is distributed with CompareData and is used by CompareData to connect to its embedded repository. You can use this driver to compare/synchronize Firebird databases.
FontBase
FrontBase ODBC driver 1.20.00.85
FrontBase has a fix build for the driver that addresses miscellaneous issues.
HSQLDB
[Easysoft][ODBC-JDBC Gateway][HSQL Database Engine]out of memory
[Easysoft][ODBC-JDBC Gateway][HSQL Database Engine]Java heap space
Issues with Java VM running out of memory when retrieving/synchronizing tables with large data.
Informix
IBM Informix ODBC Driver 2.90.00.12335
[Informix][Informix ODBC Driver]Driver does not support this function.
Driver does not support SQLTables SQL_ALL_CATALOGS
Ingres 9.2
Ingres 9.2 3.50.920.90 ODBC Driver
SQLForeignKeys returns rows for another table with the same name as the requested table (but with different owner). Will be fixed in the next release of the Ingres ODBC driver.
Matisse
Matisse DBMS 8.03.02.00
Not supported. Matisse ODBC driver is ODBC-level 2.50 rather than level 3.5 required by CompareData.
MaxDB
SAP DB Driver 7.06.00.00
Enter password all upper case when setting up application data source or leave password blank to have the driver prompt you for the password.
Microsoft Access 2003
Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb) 4.00.6200.00
- Driver generates occasional function sequence errors when multiple threads are accessing the database. Does not appear to be an issue with Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb) 14.00.4760.1000
MySQL
MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.01.07.00
MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.01.08.00
MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.01.09.00
- Driver returns at most one row for SQLTables call. Use 5.2 drivers instead.
OpenLink Virtuoso 4.5
OpenLink Virtuoso (4.5) 4.50.29.04
Various issues with synchronizing data.
Oracle
Oracle in OraDB19Home 19.00.00.00
[Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-24812: character set conversion to or from UCS2 failed
Driver fails to convert from single-byte database character set CLOB data type to unicode database character set CLOB data type, even with driver Force SQL_WCHAR support option checked in the driver ODBC configuration.
Oracle in <oracle_11_home> 11.01.00.06
- Poor peformance with catalog functions: SQLStatistics, SQLPrimaryKeys, SQLForeignKeys (severe) and SQLTablePrivileges due to time spent by the DBMS generating query execution plan for each invocation of the catalog function query. Workaround is implemented starting with CompareData 1.4.0.98 by executing "ALTER SESSION SET cursor_sharing=FORCE" right after connecting to database when using Oracle ODBC driver 10.02.x and above.
- Driver does not return a label for some resultset columns (SQLColAttribute/SQL_DESC_LABEL) such as XMLType, TIMESTAMP(6) WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE columns and all columns in a resultset that follow such columns. To compare data of resultsets that contain such columns use a query comparison where the columns in question are not included in the query select statement or are casted to another compatible data type that does not exhibit this error.
- To include private synonyms in a tables comparison, leave Table and View tables filter items blank.
- Driver returns null instead of SQL_SET_NULL for DELETE_RULE for foreign key constraints defined with 'ON DELETE SET NULL' delete rule
SQLState: IM003. Specified driver could not be loaded due to system error 127 (Oracle in XE)
You attempted connect to an Oracle Database 10g Express Edition but you are already connected to another Oracle database using a different driver that has the same dll name as the Oracle 10g Express Edition driver dll (SQORA32.dll).
Solution: use the same driver when setting up ODBC data source for connecting to both Oracle databases.
For example, your client machine connects to an Oracle 9i Enterprise server but you also downloaed and installed Oracle 10g Express Edition on your client machine and you want to connect to both servers from CompareData at the same time:
- Use the Oracle 9i ODBC driver when setting up both ODBC connections
- Copy the Oracle 10g Express Edition database section XE from C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\NETWORK\ADMIN\tnsnames.ora and paste it at the end of the Oracle home tnsnames.ora file of the Oracle driver you want to use for both connections, for example, C:\oracle\ora92\network\admin\tnsnames.ora
ORA-04020: deadlock detected while trying to lock object (application appears hung using repository Wizard)
Option to create public synonyms for repository tables was selected when the repository was created but option was not selected when repository was dropped leaving invalid repository public synonyms. To fix this issue drop the invalid repository public synonyms by running drop_synonym_xxx_ora.sql script located in Sql\Oracle folder of the application installation folder.
Oracle in <oracle_home> 10.02.00.02
Poor peformance with catalog functions: SQLStatistics, SQLForeignKeys and SQLTablePrivileges (severe).
Oracle in <oracle_10_home> 10.02.00.03
Oracle ODBC driver 9.02.00.65
Poor performance with deletes, inserts, and updates sql statements. If you are not going to write LOBs to Oracle you can improve the driver performance by unchecking the 'Enable LOBs' checkbox in the Oracle tabpage of the ODBC driver data source setup dialog.
Issue with parameter bind offset not getting used except for the first execution of a prepared sql statement. To avoid this issue, prepared statements are not used with this Oracle ODBC driver (SQORA32.DLL).
[Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-03127: no new operations allowed until the active operation ends
Oracle ODBC driver 9.x error, use ODBC Data Source Administrator to configure the data source ODBC driver. From the driver Workaround tab check 'Force Retrieval of Longs' option.
Pervasive
PervasiveSQL v9.5 Driver 9.50.77.02
- No info for SQLTables SQL_ALL_CATALOGS
- Driver says data source supports SQLTablePrivileges but returns error on execution
- Driver loses one decimal place updating some numeric data type columns, for example .02 is updated as .2 Make sure to recompare any synchronized data to ensure data is synchronized correctly.
PostgreSQL
Multiple Servers on the Same Machine using Different Ports
CompareData uses the dbms name, server name, database name, and login id to identify a data source. If you have two data sources for two different servers running on the same machine where the two servers are set up on different ports but both ODBC data sources servers are set up as 'localhost', CompareData will identify the two data sources as equivalent if you use the same login id for both data sources.
Workaround for now is to use a different login id or an equivalent but different server name, such as 'localhost' and '127.0.0.1'.
PrimeBase
SNAP PRIMEBASE 4.02.05.05
Driver ODBC level is 2.01 rather than level 3.5 required by CompareData.
SQLBase
Gupta SQLBase 9.00.01.13768
- No info for SQLColAttribute SQL_DESC_NUM_PREC_RADIX
- No info for SQLTables SQL_ALL_SCHEMAS, SQL_ALL_TABLE_TYPES
Sybase
DataDirect 5.1 Sybase Wire Protocol
5.10.00.81
Return code 100. No Data Found for an Insert Statement
Insert fails with return code 100 on executing an insert statement if the insert statement is a prepared statement and the previous execution of the statement encountered a server error. Workaround: in the driver ODBC setup window select 2 - Full for the Prepare Method in the Performance tab.
OpenLink Lite for SQL Server (TDS)(32-bit)
5.20.76.00
Issue with synchronizing dates. Month part of date gets decremented by 1. This is fixed in the latest update to the driver.
When setting the ODBC driver enable the No Quoted Identifers option in the driver setup dialog.
DataDirect 5.2 Sybase Wire Protocol 5.20.00.13
- Missing info for SQLPrimaryKeys PK_NAME
- Missing info for SQLForeignKeys PK_NAME, FK_NAME
Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.00.00.50
Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0.0.152
Various issues. Until these issues are fixed, it is recommended to use DataDirect Wire driver for Sybase instead.
- Driver deadlock on calling SQLGetTypeInfo
- Driver deadlock saving updates when another retrieve is in progress (SQLGetTypeInfo)
- No resultset for SQLTables SQL_ALL_TABLE_TYPES
- Duplicate rows for SQLTables SQL_ALL_SCHEMAS
- Missing info for SQLColAttribute SQL_DESC_AUTO_UNIQUE_VALUE
- NULL is returned for SQLGetTypeInfo SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP minimum scale
- Synchronizing Text columns data does not work
Extended Metadata Support
In order to get resultset description for triggers and stored procedures/functions you must set the 'Enable Dynamic Prepare' option for the ODBC data source (Connection tab in the driver set up dialog)
Text Files
Microsoft Text Driver (*.txt; *.csv) 4.00.6304.00
Please see schema.ini for information about setting up text driver.
[Microsoft][ODBC Text Driver] Cannot update. Database or object is read-only.
Driver does not allow text file names without extension or file extension is not allowed by default Q245407