Create an ODBC DSN for a SQL Server Database

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Create an ODBC DSN for a SQL Server Database

Do the following:

1. On the Windows Start menu, click Settings, click Control Panel, click Administrative Tools, click Data Sources (ODBC). The ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box is displayed.
2. In the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box, click the User DNS tab if you want the data source to be visible only to you on this machine, or click the System DSN tab if you want the data source to be visible to others on this machine and on the network. Click Add. The Create New Data Source dialog box is displayed.
   NoteYou may not use the File DSN tab, because Fdo does not support its use.
3. In the Create New Data Source dialog box, click SQL Server, click Finish. The Create a New Data Source to SQL Server dialog box is displayed.
4. In this dialog box, in the text entry box labeled Name , type the name that you want to use as the value of the DataSourceName connection property.
5. In this dialog in the text entry box labeled Server, type the name of the SQL Server that you want to connect to.
6. Click Next to go to the next screen where you see the network login Id is used to verify the user’s identity.
7. Click Next to go to the next screen where you can change the default database.
8. Click Next to go to the next screen where you can change other parameters.
9. Click Finish. The ODBC Microsoft SQL Server Setup dialog appears showing the configuration parameter settings.
10. In this dialog click Test Data Source.... The SQL Server ODBC Data Source Test dialog appears giving you test results. Click OK to close this dialog.
11. Click OK to close the ODBC Microsoft SQL Server Setup dialog .
12. In the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box, you see the DSN that you just added listed. Click OK.